[ofa-general] Re: multicast join failed for...

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> > If yes, I'm actually not too happy with this.
> > 
> > Would something like the following heuristic work better?
> > - select the max rate between all participants
> 
> The issue is that one doesn't know all the participants in a group as
> they are joined dynamically.
> 
> (I think we've been over this aspect on the list several times in the
> past.)

That's why I suggest the fix, so that the rate is adapted
dynamically.

> > - when a host with lower rate joins, destroy the group
> 
> I don't think a group can be destroyed like this "underneath" its
> existing members.
> 

Of course it can. That's what happens when SM is restarted.

> 
> >   and recreate it with lower rate, send every other participants
> >   a reregister MAD

How does it sound?

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