[openib-general] Re: [PATCH 1/2] multicast: notify users on membership errors

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 00:38, Sean Hefty wrote:
> Modify ib_multicast module to detect events that require clients to rejoin
> multicast groups.  Add tracking of clients which are members of any groups,
> and provide notification to those clients when such an event occurs.
> 
> This patch tracks all active members of a group.  When an event occurs that
> requires clients to rejoin a multicast group, the active members are moved
> into an error state, and the clients are notified of a network reset error.
> The group is then reset to force additional join requests to generate requests
> to the SA.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty at intel.com>
> ---
> Hal, can you apply these patches and see if it fixes the issues that you
> are experiencing.  These should eliminate any races with ipoib leaving,
> then quickly re-joining a group as a result of an event.

This is working better now. Thanks!

-- Hal