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Message-ID: <000101c7f568$9275b520$ff0da8c0@amr.corp.intel.com> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:13:08 -0700 From: "Sean Hefty" <sean.hefty@...el.com> To: "'Steve Wise'" <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>, <rdreier@...co.com> Cc: <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <general@...ts.openfabrics.org> Subject: RE: [PATCH] RDMA/CMA: Use neigh_event_send() to initiate neighbour discovery. >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@...ngridcomputing.com> Acked-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com> Roland - can you please queue this up for 2.6.24? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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