On 6/10/2015 11:21 AM, Hefty, Sean wrote:
>> While this appears to address the current upstream use model for ACM
>> with it's multicast overlay backend where PRs are static, it does not
>> appear to address PR changes.
> 
> Although this ties into ibacm, from the viewpoint of the kernel, there's no 
> requirement on the user space implementation.

True. This is not how it works in the kernel today. It is meant as
future thinking/exploring.

>> Should aging/revalidation of PRs be supported ? If so, would this make
>> PRs similar at "high" level to IP neighbor cache in kernel ?
> 
> This is requesting a new feature not supported by anything in the kernel 
> today, and would seem to fall well
> outside the scope of the suggested changes.  

Outside scope of suggested changes but where does the kernel need to
head in the longer term ?

> Is there a specific issue in the patches that you are seeing related to this?

Not in the patches themselves but in the general issue when a PR changes.

Do you think this needs addressing or are things fine as they are now ?
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