[openib-general] [PATCH 2/2] ib_cm: fix REJ due to invalid GID

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Jul 18 12:37:22 PDT 2006


    Michael> By the way, AFAIK by design cache might be out of sync
    Michael> with actual hardware.  Roland, could you confirm this
    Michael> pls?

Yes, that's true.  But even without cache, since the update of GID and
P_Key tables is asynchronous, there's nothing that prevents the result
of a query of GID or P_Key from being wrong before the query function
returns to the caller.  So the cache is not really the problem.

 - R.




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