From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nivedita Singhvi Subject: Re: PATCH: Multicast: Filter multicast traffic per socket mc_list Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:28:25 -0700 Message-ID: <49E8AE29.3030702@us.ibm.com> References: <20090416174422.GB28978@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <20090416.151641.220683663.davem@davemloft.net> <49E8A240.8050404@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , nhorman@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, vladislav.yasevich@hp.com, dlstevens@us.ibm.com To: Christoph Lameter Return-path: Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.150]:58701 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761726AbZDQQ22 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:28:28 -0400 Received: from d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.227]) by e32.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n3HGPPXU001446 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:25:25 -0600 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (d03av01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.167]) by d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n3HGSQid141808 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:28:27 -0600 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n3HGSPH7018087 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:28:26 -0600 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Christoph Lameter wrote: >> Ideally, you could tweak OS environment configuration >> setting, if you don't want per socket. But it cannot >> be the default. > > Would you support an additional OS config variable that would set the > default for socket operations? Then we could have a per socket option that > would allow overriding the OS config variable? That would be my choice personally, because it would be easier than scripting some solution to modify potentially hundreds of sockets on a system... Does that sound acceptable? thanks, Nivedita