________________________________________ From: Hefty, Sean [sean.he...@intel.com] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 1:09 AM To: Somnath Kotur; rol...@kernel.org Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: [PATCH] IB/CMA: Initialize hop_limit to a known default macro instead of 1 as is done currently.
> - route->path_rec->hop_limit = 1; > + route->path_rec->hop_limit = IPV6_DEFAULT_HOPLIMIT; This is not an IPv6 route though. AFAIK, RoCE/IBoE is not routable, so the hop limit should be set to 1. Using a different value affects timeout values set by the IB CM. Can you describe more of the reasoning behind this change? Sean, This change was done precisely to enable us to do that i.e make it routable. This was the only suitable macro i could find that defines a certain default value for the hop limit and is used by the IPv6 layer in the kernel already. I'm open to other suggestions of values, but pegging to 1 means we are not allowing any scope for it to be routable in the future ..Would you agree ? Thanks Som -- 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