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InfiniBand Network Architecture
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InfiniBand Network Architecture

by Tom Shanley, MindShare, Inc.
October 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1280 pages
24h 35m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 16. Other Protection Mechanisms

The Previous Chapter

The previous chapter described the various types of memory access violations that could take place and the protection mechanisms used to prevent them. It provided a detailed description of memory regions, memory handles, and protection domains (PDs).

This Chapter

The IBA specification defines a number of mechanisms to prevent various types of unauthorized access. While the previous chapter covered the memory-oriented protection mechanisms, this chapter provides a detailed description of the remaining protection mechanisms:

  • Preventing unauthorized access to UD QPs with PDs.

  • Partition keys (P_Keys).

  • Management keys (M_Keys).

  • The Subnet Management key (SM_Key).

  • Reliable Datagram Domains (RDDs). ...

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