On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 01:47:36PM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > On 6/9/2015 10:57 AM, kaike....@intel.com wrote: > > From: Kaike Wan <kaike....@intel.com> > > > > This patch routes a SA pathrecord query to netlink first > > Should only unicast PRs be done in this manner or should API support > enabling for unicast and/or multicast ? > > AFAIK kernel doesn't query multicast PRs now (queries MCMRs) but this > seems like it would help make it future proof and not have to take > timeout on local query unless app supports it.
It is a good question. We can clearly extend toward that, using a MGID as the DGID and adding additional nested netlink fields. However, does it make sense? I don't think user space should be joining on behalf of the kernel... Do we ever query without a join? Jasno -- 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
