[openib-general] [RFC] [PATCH 2/7] ib_multicast 2.6.20: add ib_multicast module to track join requests from the same port

[Or Gerlitz]

Eitan Zahavi wrote:
> If the tracking (ref counting) was done at the MAD level - no change to 
> IPoIB would have been required ...

Maybe.

You could also implement all the ib stack core in one module...
The openib designers have chosen not to do so and rather break it into 
smaller modules namely ib_core, ib_mad, ib_sa, ib_cm, ib_addr and 
rdma_cm, with the architecture at hand adding ib_multicast makes sense.

Or.