[ofa-general] [PATCH 1/4] ib/ipoib: specify TClass and FlowLabel with PR queries for QoS support

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Aug 7 12:14:38 PDT 2007


 > Roland, I realized now that the current IPoIB implementation does not
 > set IB_SA_PATH_REC_MTU and IB_SA_PATH_REC_RATE (and their selectors)
 > in the SA path query where it does so for SA multicast joins. Is there
 > a specific reason for that? do you assume that if the remote node has
 > managed to join the broadcast group as this node this the SA enforced
 > some sort of MTU and RATE compliance which you would get in the
 > returned path record?

Yes, I guess there is a corner case where the SA might return a path
where the MTU is too small.  I don't think we need to specify the rate
because things should work fine no matter what rate we get.

 - R.



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