[ofa-general] Re: IPoIB path caching

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Sun Jul 22 20:50:06 PDT 2007


 > Do you agree that using cached IB L2 info where the net stack wants to
 > renew its IPoIB L2 (which is IB L3 && L4) info is a bug?

Yes, looks that way.

Also your point that there's no reason for IPoIB to keep the path info
once it has created the AH makes sense to me.  I haven't had a chance
to look at the code but it seems we could kill off a lot of stuff by
just creating AHs immediately and then dumping the path record.

 - R.



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