[openib-general] ipoib ipv6 multicast joins, was: multicast code/merge status

[Or Gerlitz]

On 1/15/07, Sean Hefty <mshefty at ichips.intel.com> wrote:
> > Can you explain how this relates to your multicast changes? the IPoIB
> > send-only-full-member-join hack was there before your patch and stayed
> > there after your patch... and how come a change in the multicast code
> > can cause the error steam to be finite... have you moved the retry
> > mechanism from the ib_sa consumer to the ib_sa mcast engine?
>
> There was a bug in the ib_sa multicast engine handling failed joins, which had
> it retry forever.  (Basically, the response was not being matched with the
> request.  So the response was discarded, and the request was retried.)  I had
> fixed this in svn, but lost the patch moving over to git.

sure, got you.

Or.