[ofa-general] [RFC] ipoib: multicast sender will leave the group when neighbour is cleaned

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Wed Jul 23 09:20:39 PDT 2008


 > The problem worse because ipoib is not really using send-only joins, it
 > joins as full member. See ipoib_multicast.c/ipoib_mcast_sendonly_join():
 > 
 > 	struct ib_sa_mcmember_rec rec = {
 > #if 0				/* Some SMs don't support send-only yet */
 > 		.join_state = 4
 > #else
 > 		.join_state = 1
 > #endif
 > 	};

Sorry, you're right.  I misread that code.

I guess the time has come to use send-only joins... I think all relevant
SMs have supported it for a long time.

 - R.



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