[ofa-general] removing PR caching from IPoIB
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Aug 14 12:33:06 PDT 2007
> My first thought was to tie the IPoIB PR lifetime to ipoib_neigh and
> treat unicast ARPs separately. For unicast ARPs, I was thinking of
> setting the skb as the context of the PR query and send it after it
> completed, but I hadn't considered cleanup.
So you would do a new path record lookup for every unicast ARP that
gets sent? What is the advantage of that?
> As an alternate approach, I could try adding a reference count to
> ipoib_path that's incremented once for each neighbour or when sending
> a unicast ARP. This may be equivalent to merging ipoib_ah and
> ipoib_path, but I haven't looked at the details of trying this.
>
> Do you have a preference or any other suggestions that would limit the
> PR lifetime?
What is the motivation for these changes? If you explain what you're
trying to fix, then maybe I can give a more intelligent answer.
- R.
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