Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> Quoting Moni Shoua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Subject: Re: infiniband bonding/merging/aggregation with SDP and/or?VERBS >> >> Tziporet Koren wrote: >>> Moni Shoua wrote: >>>> ib-bonding is based on standard Linux bonding with some required >>>> changes to make it work with IPoIB. >>> What is the status of accepting the specific IB changes to Linux kernel? >> I've sent a new patch yesterday with a comment about module unload being >> unsafe under specific scenarios. >> Michael's opinion is that we should fix this issue first but I think that >> there is a place to push the current patch now and wait for the other fix to >> come later (which is probably not in IB or at least not just IB). > > I don't think this summarizes my opinion correctly. > I just would like to see all the patches together - I have a feeling caching > the > device in ipoib->dev is problematic and module unloading issues are just a > symptom pointing to deeper issues. > I'll try to summarize the concept of bonding and IPoiB soon but in the meantime I just want to make sure that I understand you. You're saying that caching the device in ipoib->dev is problematic. What do you mean by that? This is how bonding works (even for Ethernet). It takes a pointer of dev and remembers it for its operation.
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