Steve Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This patch implements a mechanism that allows interested clients to > register for notification of certain network events. The intended use > is to allow RDMA devices (linux/drivers/infiniband) to be notified of > neighbour updates, ICMP redirects, path MTU changes, and route changes. > > The reason these devices need update events is because they typically > cache this information in hardware and need to be notified when this > information has been updated. > > The key events of interest are: > > - neighbour mac address change > - routing redirect (the next hop neighbour changes for a dst_entry) > - path mtu change (the patch mtu for a dst_entry changes). > - route add/deletes
I'd like to know more about what the RDMA device is going to do with this information. I thought RDMA was for receiving packets? Most of the info here pertains to transmission. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
