From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 for-next 04/14] IB/core: Add default GID for RoCE GID table Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 11:41:59 -0600 Message-ID: <20150519174159.GB18675@obsidianresearch.com> References: <1432045637-9090-1-git-send-email-matanb@mellanox.com> <1432045637-9090-5-git-send-email-matanb@mellanox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1432045637-9090-5-git-send-email-matanb-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Matan Barak Cc: Doug Ledford , linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Or Gerlitz , Moni Shoua , Somnath Kotur , Sean Hefty List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 05:27:07PM +0300, Matan Barak wrote: > When RoCE is used, a default GID address should be generated > for every supported RoCE type. These default GID addresses are > generated based on the IPv6 link-local address, but in contrast > to the GID based on the regular IPv6 link-local (as we generate > GID per IP address), these GIDs are also available if the net > device is down (in order to support loopback). > Moreover, these default GID addresses can't be deleted. That addrconf stuff needs to be in a dedicated patch Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html