[ofa-general] Re: infiniband bonding/merging/aggregation with SDP and/or VERBS

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Moni Shoua <monisonlists at gmail.com>:
> Subject: Re: infiniband bonding/merging/aggregation with SDP and/or?VERBS
> 
> Tziporet Koren wrote:
> > Moni Shoua wrote:
> > >
> > > ib-bonding is based on standard Linux bonding with some required
> > > changes to make it work with IPoIB.
> > 
> > What is the status of accepting the specific IB changes to Linux kernel?
> 
> I've sent a new patch yesterday with a comment about module unload being 
> unsafe under specific scenarios.
> Michael's opinion is that we should fix this issue first but I think that
> there is a place to push the current patch now and wait for the other fix to
> come later (which is probably not in IB or at least not just IB).

I don't think this summarizes my opinion correctly.
I just would like to see all the patches together - I have a feeling caching the
device in ipoib->dev is problematic and module unloading issues are just a
symptom pointing to deeper issues.

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MST