[ofa-general] [BUG report / PATCH] fix race in the core multicast management

Sasha Khapyorsky sashak at voltaire.com
Mon Oct 1 08:16:30 PDT 2007


On 12:24 Mon 01 Oct     , Or Gerlitz wrote:
> 
>  At the bottom line, with this device/firmware the problem does not happen, 
>  but there's a possible hole here if the IB spec does not require the SM to 
>  set the client re-register bit each time it discovers a node.

BTW according to IB spec client reregistration support is optional for
IB port (indicated by bit 25 of PortInfo:CapabilityMask).

Sasha



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