[ofa-general] [PATCH 1/4] ib/ipoib: specify TClass and FlowLabel with PR queries for QoS support
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Aug 7 12:14:38 PDT 2007
> Roland, I realized now that the current IPoIB implementation does not
> set IB_SA_PATH_REC_MTU and IB_SA_PATH_REC_RATE (and their selectors)
> in the SA path query where it does so for SA multicast joins. Is there
> a specific reason for that? do you assume that if the remote node has
> managed to join the broadcast group as this node this the SA enforced
> some sort of MTU and RATE compliance which you would get in the
> returned path record?
Yes, I guess there is a corner case where the SA might return a path
where the MTU is too small. I don't think we need to specify the rate
because things should work fine no matter what rate we get.
- R.
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