From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Advice needed on IP-over-InfiniBand driver
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 21:52:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040927215244.697aaa02.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52r7onc8ev.fsf@topspin.com>
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 21:41:12 -0700
Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com> wrote:
> I've been mulling over the previous advice I got and reading over the
> networking code, and I hope I have some more intelligent questions
> now. It seems I really have two somewhat independent issues to
> resolve with respect to IP-over-IB address resolution:
>
> - IPoIB adds a second InfiniBand-specific path record lookup after
> the normal ARP/ND lookup. I think I have a handle on how this can
> be added to net/ipv4/arp.c.
I think you might learn something by having a look at
what net/atm/clip.c is doing, it creates it's own neighbour
layer for CLIP ATM neighbours. It is in a similar boat to
your IPoIB stuff.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-28 4:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-19 4:08 Advice needed on IP-over-InfiniBand driver Roland Dreier
2004-09-19 21:01 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-19 21:19 ` jamal
2004-09-20 2:34 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-20 4:51 ` Roland Dreier
2004-09-20 4:49 ` Roland Dreier
2004-09-21 11:35 ` jamal
2004-09-21 15:23 ` Roland Dreier
2004-09-20 4:42 ` Roland Dreier
2004-09-28 4:41 ` Roland Dreier
2004-09-28 4:52 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-09-30 18:41 ` Roland Dreier
2004-09-30 21:21 ` David Stevens
2004-09-30 21:48 ` Roland Dreier
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