[openib-general] IB mcast question

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Aug 15 13:17:35 PDT 2006


    Steve> I was able to create a mcast group with the mc
    Steve> qkey==0xe00a0a0a, and 3 apps joined this group, but their
    Steve> qp qkeys were 0 (I changed ucma_init_ud_qp() to set the qp
    Steve> qkey to 0).  One app sent to the mcgroup ah/qkey/qpn and
    Steve> the other two received the packet.  Does that make sense?

In theory the Q_Key of a multicast group record is the Q_Key you're
supposed to use when sending to the group.  Of course nothing enforces
this but I don't really like abusing things this way.

 - R.




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