[openib-general] RE: Re: [PATCH] ipoib_flush_paths

[Fabian Tillier]

On 4/5/06, Sean Hefty <sean.hefty at intel.com> wrote:
> >I don't see the connection (since we only need de-register, let's just call
> >it flush and be done with it), but fine. Please propose an API then.
>
> The issue that I see is that ib_sa_flush() requires ib_mad_flush(), but the MAD
> layer API doesn't have the problem that we're talking about.  I dislike the
> trickling effect that this fix has.
>
> I need to give more thought about an interface, and who will really use it.  For
> example, the local_sa performs its own path record queries because of the need
> to obtain multiple paths.  The ib_multicast module now handles multicast
> join/leave requests, and could be made to do its own queries.  It may be
> possible to remove some of the ib_sa APIs.

Can't you pass in a reference to the client module for registration,
and then take a reference from the context of each request that is
released after the callback unwinds?  I thought Linux had module
reference functions...

- Fab