From: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
To: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, rdreier@cisco.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, general@lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH] RDMA/CMA: Use neigh_event_send() to initiate neighbour discovery.
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:23:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F00993.9080706@opengridcomputing.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000101c7f568$9275b520$ff0da8c0@amr.corp.intel.com>
Once this is applied upstream, I can pull it back in to ofed-1.2.5 and
ofed-1.3.
Steve.
Sean Hefty wrote:
>> RDMA/CMA: Use neigh_event_send() to initiate neighbour discovery.
>>
>> Calling arp_send() to initiate neighbour discovery (ND) doesn't do the
>> full ND protocol. Namely, it doesn't handle retransmitting the arp
>> request if it is dropped. The function neigh_event_send() does all this.
>> Without doing full ND, rdma address resolution fails in the presence of
>> dropped arp bcast packets.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
>
> Acked-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
>
> Roland - can you please queue this up for 2.6.24?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-18 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-12 10:00 [PATCH] RDMA/CMA: Use neigh_event_send() to initiate neighbour discovery Steve Wise
2007-09-12 18:13 ` [ofa-general] " Sean Hefty
2007-09-18 17:23 ` Steve Wise [this message]
2007-09-20 16:31 ` Roland Dreier
2007-09-16 7:34 ` [ofa-general] " Or Gerlitz
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