[ofa-general] [PATCH 2/4] ipoib: fix loss of connectivity after bonding failover on both sides
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Wed Jan 7 13:48:17 PST 2009
> So I'm finally understanding this patch. And I finally see that it is
> adding a 16-byte memcpy to the data path for every packet we send. Is
> the overhead of this really negligible? Can we think of a better way to
> handle this rare failure (double failover that causes an ARP to be lost)
> in a way that doesn't penalize the common datapath?
Never mind, I see we do the memcmp now also. And I remember that I
hated added it originally.
So can anyone think of a way to avoid it in general? (But it's not a
blocker for this patch)
- R.
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