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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi again Roland,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><!--StartFragment --><FONT face=Arial size=2>In looking at the code, this
IPv6 group <FONT size=3><FONT size=2>(all routers)
(0xff12:601b:ffff:0:0:0:0:2)</FONT> </FONT><FONT size=2>is going
through</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the send only path in
ipoib_multicast.c::ipoib_mcast_send where:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><!--StartFragment --><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT><PRE> spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags);
mcast = __ipoib_mcast_find(dev, mgid);
if (!mcast) {
/* Let's create a new send only group now */
ipoib_dbg_mcast(priv, "setting up send only multicast group for "
IPOIB_GID_FMT "\n", IPOIB_GID_ARG(*mgid));
mcast = ipoib_mcast_alloc(dev, 0);
if (!mcast) {
ipoib_warn(priv, "unable to allocate memory for "
"multicast structure\n");
dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
goto out;
}
set_bit(IPOIB_MCAST_FLAG_SENDONLY, &mcast->flags);
mcast->mcmember.mgid = *mgid;
__ipoib_mcast_add(dev, mcast);
list_add_tail(&mcast->list, &priv->multicast_list);
}
if (!mcast->ah) {
if (skb_queue_len(&mcast->pkt_queue) < IPOIB_MAX_MCAST_QUEUE)
skb_queue_tail(&mcast->pkt_queue, skb);
else
dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
if (mcast->query)
ipoib_dbg_mcast(priv, "no address vector, "
"but multicast join already started\n");
else if (test_bit(IPOIB_MCAST_FLAG_SENDONLY, &mcast->flags))
ipoib_mcast_sendonly_join(mcast);</PRE></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Although the sendonly_join code has been changed to
do a full member rather than send only join,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>it does not fall back to create the group if it
does not already exist</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>. One wouldn't expect a
send only</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>join to create the group if it didn't already
exist.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any idea on why this group is send only ?
Don't end nodes need to both send and receive on the </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>all routers group ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-- Hal</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>