***SPAM*** Re: [ofa-general] [RFC] ipoib: multicast sender will leave the group when neighbour is cleaned

Yossi Etigin yossi.openib at gmail.com
Wed Jul 23 09:30:14 PDT 2008


AFAIK OpenSM does not really support send-only, but it uses NonMember to emulate it.

Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > The problem worse because ipoib is not really using send-only joins, it
>  > joins as full member. See ipoib_multicast.c/ipoib_mcast_sendonly_join():
>  > 
>  > 	struct ib_sa_mcmember_rec rec = {
>  > #if 0				/* Some SMs don't support send-only yet */
>  > 		.join_state = 4
>  > #else
>  > 		.join_state = 1
>  > #endif
>  > 	};
> 
> Sorry, you're right.  I misread that code.
> 
> I guess the time has come to use send-only joins... I think all relevant
> SMs have supported it for a long time.
> 
>  - R.
> 



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