Re: [PATCH RDMA] Fixup IPv6 support and IPv4 routing corner cases for RDMA CM

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:49:28PM +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > **COMPILE TESTED ONLY**
> 
> any reason why other people have to test for you?

Just a preliminary proposal - other people can do whatever they
want. Look at the list of things it fixes and decide your self if you
want to help or not <shrug>

> > Convert the address resolution process for outgoing connections
> > to be very similar to the way the TCP stack does the same operations.
> > This fixes many corner case bugs that can crop up.
> 
> rdma_join_multicast(3) states that "before joining a multicast
> group, the rdma_cm_id must be bound to an RDMA device by calling
> rdma_bind_addr or rdma_resolve_addr", please make sure that this
> flow isn't broken by your patch.

Can you explain how rdma_resolve_addr is used in conjunction with
multicast? I do not understand what the dest would be. Is it just a man
page typo?

I belive the rdma_bind_addr path is unaffected.

Jason
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