[openib-general][PATCH 1 of 3] repost: Client Reregister support for kernel space

[Leonid Arsh]

On 5/31/06, Sean Hefty <mshefty at ichips.intel.com> wrote:
> Why not patch the SM to handle this sort of case and rebuild its database
> without every client in the fabric needing to send it MADs?  Why can't the SM
> save/restore the configuration itself?

Sending  CleintReregister request in SM's business.
It doesn't have to send it, but keeping information persistently  on
the SM may be problematic to implement.
What if a client sent a join request during the SM reboot? The client
will never know that
SM is up again and it will never send join multicast requests.

Regards,
   Leonid