[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH] ipoib: send creation parameters when doing send-only join

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com> wrote:
>  >  If creation parameters are not sent a sender will not trigger
>  > mcast group creation. Fixes bug #1153 in bugzilla.
>
> If there are no receivers and only senders, why would we want to create
> a multicast group?

IBA states for a MC group to be present there must be at least one
"full" member (sender and receiver). So it's not only just senders
(SendOnlyNonMembers) but also only just receivers (NonMembers) which
won't cause group creation.

-- Hal

>
>  - R.
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