On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 13:13, Sean Hefty wrote: > > Doesn't this carve a hole in the IPv6 (multicast) address space (group > > ID) ? If so, is that a hole we can carve out ? > > I don't think that this causes any issues that weren't previously there. > IPOIB > maps an IPv6 address into 80-bits, so not every IPv6 address can be mapped > into > an MGID using the ipoib algorithm.
I forgot about this. > What the rdma_cm needs to determine is whether the sockaddr passed into > rdma_join_multicast is an IPv6 address that needs to be translated into an > MGID, > or whether the address is itself an MGID. I guess that it might be able to > look > at the address to see if it matches the SA created MGID format > (0xff1?a01b...). Makes sense. -- Hal > - Sean _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
