On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 18:16, Roland Dreier wrote: > Sean> Can (or should it be permitted for) a userspace process join > Sean> the same group as one used by ipoib? > > Well, that's the question. I don't think there's not any strong > reason to forbid it, except to make implementation easier. Joining > the group isn't the problem -- the thing we have to make sure of is > that a userspace process can't leave a group that IPoIB still wants to > be a member of.
In this case, the userprocess can "leave" (that would be a local operation) but the endnode shouldn't until some ref count on the group is 0. -- Hal _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
