[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 1/4] rdma/addr: keep the netdevice name in struct rdma_dev_addr

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Wed Jun 18 11:13:38 PDT 2008


 > Keep also the local (src) netdevice name in struct rdma_dev_addr. In a High-Availability
 > scheme this can be used by the rdma-cm to align RDMA sessions to use the same links as
 > the IP stack does under fail-over and route change cases.

Is the netdevice name the best we can do?  It seems pretty fragile in
the face of renaming etc.



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