[ofa-general] Re: IPoIB path caching
Jason Gunthorpe
jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com
Sun Jul 29 10:32:32 PDT 2007
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:32:27AM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >The existing trap monitoring in Sean's module covers about 90% of the
> >cases in IB when you need to invalidate a PR, the last 10% will need
> >something new :(
>
> Let it be. Do you think the last 10% should not prevent the local sa
> merge to the upstream code?
Only that the design philosophy should accommodate an eventual solution
to this remaining problem. Mainly, as I've said, I'd like to see more
stuff in userspace and a simple well defined kernel component.
What about you? Your arguments about linking arp lifetime to PR cache
lifetime are trying to address this very same 10%.
Jason
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