> OK. Here is an example that was viewed in our tests. > One IPoIB host (client) sends a stream of multicast packets to another IPoIB > host (server). > SM takeover event takes place during traffic and as a result multicast info > is flushed > and there is a need to rejoin by hosts. Without the patch there is a chance > (which according to our experience > is a very big chance) that the request to rejoin will be to the old SM and > only after a retry join completes successfully. > This takes too long and the patch solves it.
OK, that is fairly convincing (and it would be nice to include when sending the original patch). Please resend a version that fixes the races in the patch and we can probably add this for 2.6.27. - R. _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
