From: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun....@oracle.com> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 15:19:05 +0800
> In IPv4, the newly introduced rdma_read_gids is used to read the SGID/DGID > for the connection which returns GID correctly for RoCE transport as well. > > In IPv6, rdma_read_gids is also used. The following are why rdma_read_gids > is introduced. > > rdma_addr_get_dgid() for RoCE for client side connections returns MAC > address, instead of DGID. > rdma_addr_get_sgid() for RoCE doesn't return correct SGID for IPv6 and > when more than one IP address is assigned to the netdevice. > > So the transport agnostic rdma_read_gids() API is provided by rdma_cm > module. > > Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun....@oracle.com> Applied.
