[ofa-general] [PATCH/RFC] IPoIB: Don't drop multicast packets sent before group is joined

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Thu Jun 11 09:54:21 PDT 2009


 > Could you reapply the patch? The semantics are exaclty as demanded by
 > David Miller. It blocks the process that is doing the join and not the
 > others.

No, the semantics are not the same.  It doesn't block until socket space
is exhausted, and it will no longer work if the net stack does
skb_orphan before giving the packet to the network driver.



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