netdev - Re: IPoIB: Fix multicast packet drops before join is complete

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Date:	Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:54:09 -0700
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	cl@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	yosefe@...taire.COM
Subject: Re: IPoIB: Fix multicast packet drops before join is complete


 > Go look at what the ARP backlog queue actually does, then come back to
 > this conversation (hint: it's not a backlog for ARP packets, it's
 > a backlog for packets waiting for ARP to resolve).

Yes, I see now.  I confused myself a few times already in this
discussion.  I'm going to pull Christoph's patch out of my pending queue
for now until we reach agreement on this.

 - R.
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