netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/2] ipoib: show VF broadcast address

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Message-ID: <bd0b0a87b8bc459e172ad9396931bb69697da6c9.camel@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 18 Jun 2019 13:29:59 -0400
From:   Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, kda@...ux-powerpc.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        mkubecek@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/2] ipoib: show VF broadcast address

On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 10:08 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org>
> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 10:53:41 +0200
> 
> > in IPoIB case we can't see a VF broadcast address for but
> > can see for PF
> 
> I just want to understand why this need to see the VF broadcast
> address is IPoIB specific?

A VF might or might not have the same security domain (P_Key) as the
parent, and the P_Key is encoded in the broadcast address.  In the
event that two vfs or a vf and a pf can't see each other over the IPoIB
network, it is necessary to be able to see the broadcast address in use
by each to make sure they are the same and not that they shouldn't be
able to see each other because they are on different P_Keys and
therefore different broadcast multicast groups.

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