[openib-general] ipoib multicast problem

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Sep 19 09:30:59 PDT 2006


    Eli> 1. An application registers to a multicast group as a full
    Eli> member. As a result all the groups are listed in dev->mclist.
    Eli> 2. The infiniband link falls momentarily, opensm restarted
    Eli> etc.  3. All multicast memberships are flushed.  4. The net
    Eli> device will not join again until at a later time something
    Eli> will cause ipoib_set_mcast_list() to be called.
 
I don't understand.  How could ipoib rejoin the broadcast group and
then not rejoin the rest of the full member groups it has?

 - R.




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