[openib-general][PATCH] mthca & ib_verbs.h client reregister event support by the SW

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Mon Apr 10 01:22:27 PDT 2006


Quoting r. Leonid Arsh <leonida at voltaire.com>:
> Subject: Re: [openib-general][PATCH] mthca & ib_verbs.h client reregister event support by the SW
> 
> Michael,
> IPoIB used to interpret the CLIENT_REREGISTER event as a LID_CHANGE event
> before.  That's why we could see that sometimes that IPoIB handled the
> LID_CHANGE event additional times.  With the patch, IPoIB will receive the
> correct CLIENT_REREGISTER event.

But it will ignore this event, won't it?
So where previously IPoIB responded to CLIENT_REREGISTER in the same way
as to LID_CHANGE and re-registered with SM, it now won't do it, which seems
wrong.

Am I missing something?

-- 
MST



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