I guess that if we want to keep tracking the multicast group (as fab has noticed) than we don't have a way to not change the API.
Thanks Tzachi > -----Original Message----- > From: Hefty, Sean [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 11:07 PM > To: Tzachi Dar; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [ofw] patch: [ibbus] Add A new function to IBAL that allows one > to create a multicast group without attaching a QP to it. > > > In a more practical way, what we want to achieve is a change to the current > > ipoib design. We would like to separate the qps life cycle from the > > multicast group. In the current code we had to make sure that the qp is > > always there before we can attach to the group. > > This makes sense, and it would be nice to include this in the patch > description. > > I think you can achieve this without changing the existing APIs. Just let the > QP handle be optional. _______________________________________________ ofw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ofw
