> On 6/10/2015 3:10 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 01:47:36PM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> >> On 6/9/2015 10:57 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> >>> From: Kaike Wan <[email protected]>
> >>>
> >>> This patch routes a SA pathrecord query to netlink first
> >>
> >> Should only unicast PRs be done in this manner or should API support
> >> enabling for unicast and/or multicast ?
> >>
> >> AFAIK kernel doesn't query multicast PRs now (queries MCMRs) but this
> >> seems like it would help make it future proof and not have to take
> >> timeout on local query unless app supports it.
> >
> > It is a good question. We can clearly extend toward that, using a MGID
> > as the DGID and adding additional nested netlink fields.
> >
> > However, does it make sense?
> 
> If it doesn't make sense, then should MGIDs as DGIDs never be requested via
> the PR netlink API ?
> 

Why should we prevent it?  What does it hurt?

Ira
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