RE: rdmap-03 spec clarification

On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 07:33, Barry Reinhold(home) wrote:
> From the conformance testing perspective we send you non-zero values
> in bits 32-63 using the different RDMA operations specified and expect
> the DUT to properly complete the RDMA request. I think this is your
> case 1. 
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> I didn’t understand your case 2 – could you reword that case please?
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My question has been answered. Thanks.

I was concerned that some conformance test would send a non-zero value
in the Invalidate STag field and expect the receiver to flag an error.

-patricio kaplan
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> draft-ietf-rddp-rdmap-03.txt, section 6.1:
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> "Bits 32-63; Invalidate STag. However, this field is only valid  for
> Send with Invalidate and Send with Solicited Event and  Invalidate
> Messages (see Figure 4 RDMA Usage of DDP Fields).
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>  For Send, Send with Solicited Event, RDMA Read Request, and 
> Terminate, the Invalidate STag field MUST be set to zero on  transmit
> and ignored by the receiver."
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> Could someone tell me if "ignored by the receiver" means 
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> 1) If it is not zero the receiver MUST NOT generate an error
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> 2) The receiver MUST CHECK that the STag is zero but in case it is 
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>    it does nothing with it.
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> thanks in advance,
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> -patricio kaplan
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> Barry Reinhold
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