***SPAM*** Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 1/4] rdma/addr: keep the netdevice name in struct rdma_dev_addr

[Or Gerlitz]

On 6/18/08, Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com> wrote:

>> Keep also the local (src) netdevice name in struct rdma_dev_addr. In a
High-Availability
>> scheme this can be used by the rdma-cm to align RDMA sessions to use the
same links
>> as the IP stack does under fail-over and route change cases.

> Is the netdevice name the best we can do?  It seems pretty fragile in  the
face of renaming etc.

Taking into account that under this scheme the hw address of the netdevice
changes, I didn't see something really better than the name, were you
thinking on some specific alternative? just saving pointer to the netdevice
seemed quite not elegant...

Or.
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