On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 19:11, Sean Hefty wrote: > Hal Rosenstock wrote: > >>(*) there are some more issues here which need to be addressed, see > >>for example the "Some SMs don't support send-only yet" weird comment > >>at ipoib_mcast_sendonly_join() > > > > > > It's more likely an SA issue but I'm only guessing... It may also be > > historical... > > Based on observation, it looks like ipoib joins a couple of IPv6 multicast > groups with send only membership.
Yes. > However it changes the join_state from 4 to 1 > (send-only to full member). Yes, that is the workaround Roland had put in (likely for a non compliant SM which didn't support send only joins). > This results in the SA trying to create the > multicast group, only the required MCMemberRecord components have not been > set. Right, the group either needs to be previously precreated or a receiver "started" first which would create the group. > I'm not sure if this indicates a serious problem, but I'm guessing not. I don't believe it's a serious problem (at least now). In any case, it is no worse than it was before your change for this (it is not a problem of your making...). > The join request simply fails and returns an error back to ipoib. (Which > would have > happened for a send-only join if the group hadn't already been created.) Right. -- Hal > - Sean _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
