On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 16:54 -0800, Hefty, Sean wrote: > > This seems to introduce an HCA specific dependency. > > yep :( This is why ACM just handles it rather than exposing any sort of > option to a user. > > > Isn't ibacm supposed to work with different HCAs? > > It does and still will, even in a mixed environment. > > One could argue that this change is reasonable regardless of the OFED kernel > patch. It avoids sending multicast traffic when the destination is local. > The main drawback beyond the extra code is that a node can't send a multicast > message to itself, with the intent that remote listeners will be able to > cache the address data. > > - Sean
Is there a way to make it HCA neutral? Would it require extending the libibverbs API to set the option? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
