Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:23:31 -0500 | From | Steve Wise <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] RDMA/CMA: Use neigh_event_send() to initiate neighbour discovery. |
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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? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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