On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 01:38:43PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 01:43:28PM +0200, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > ROCE uses IGMP for Multicast instead of the native Infiniband system where > > joins are required in order to post messages on the Multicast group. > > According to the IBTA v1.5, there is no need to join multicast group to > send messages. > > 10.5.2 MULTICAST WORK REQUESTS > 10.5.2.1 IBA UNRELIABLE MULTICAST WORK REQUESTS > ... > A QP is not required to be attached to a Multicast Group > in order to initiate an IBA Unreliable Multicast Work Request. > > Did I look in wrong place? This is talking about the ibv_attach_mcast() verb, which is different from the SM notion of a node being joined to a multicast group or not. In IBA a node that is not joined to a MGID will not be able to send to that MGID, the network is allowed to drop the packet. With ethernet all nodes can always send to all multicast addresses, the IGMP stuff is only required to receive Jason
