Roland Dreier wrote: > > OK. Here is an example that was viewed in our tests. > > One IPoIB host (client) sends a stream of multicast packets to another > IPoIB host (server). > > SM takeover event takes place during traffic and as a result multicast > info is flushed > > and there is a need to rejoin by hosts. Without the patch there is a > chance (which according to our experience > > is a very big chance) that the request to rejoin will be to the old SM > and only after a retry join completes successfully. > > This takes too long and the patch solves it. > > OK, that is fairly convincing (and it would be nice to include when > sending the original patch). > > Please resend a version that fixes the races in the patch and we can > probably add this for 2.6.27. > > - R. > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general > > To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general > Thanks. I will resend this patch in a series of 2 (in a different thread) The other patch in the series is related to the one above but was sent by me earlier in a different thread without justification.
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