[openib-general] [PATCH v3] ipoib: convert to use new multicast interface

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Thu May 11 10:06:25 PDT 2006


Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: [openib-general] [PATCH v3] ipoib: convert to use new multicast interface
> 
>     Sean> I just wanted to make sure that this patch wasn't dropped.
> 
> Sorry, forgot all about it.  I will read this over and commit it to
> svn, and hopefully people can stress test it to see how it compares to
> what we have.
> 
>     Sean> Can we queue the multicast module for 2.6.18?
> 
> I guess so.  What's the motivation?  Do we have any users of it other
> than IPoIB?

I also think it might make sense to use the new SA query retry support.
I think currently ipoib retries SA queries by itself.

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MST



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