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

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Message-ID: <adabpp2v0y2.fsf@cisco.com>
Date:	Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:13:25 -0700
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	yosefe@...taire.COM
Subject: Re: IPoIB: Fix multicast packet drops before join is complete


 > This is actually better than IPoIB there is nothing before
 > the initial traffic that arrives. In the IPoIB case 3 packets arrive
 > suggesting to the other side that the link is okay.

So maybe we should drop the *oldest* packet on queue overflow?  Would
that make things better?

 - R.
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