Re: [PATCH V4 for-next 0/4] Support SendOnlyFullMember join

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On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 9:10 PM, Erez Shitrit <erezsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 05/16/2016 08:28 AM, Erez Shitrit wrote:
>>> There are four types of multicast join: FullMember, NonMember,
>>> SendOnlyNonMember and SendOnlyFullMember.
>>>
>>> This patch-set introduces the ability to send multicast join requests of
>>> type SendOnlyFullMember (until now only the first three types were
>>> supported).
>>> Host that sends such join request, does not require a multicast
>>> subscription and will still send properly, and in addition will not get
>>> other multicast packets from that group.
>>>
>>> It adds a new SA query (for classport_info) to check that the sm
>>> supports sending such requests and it modifies multicast processing in
>>> the IB/core module to handle SendOnlyFullMember multicast join requests.
>>>
>>> In addition, the patch set modifies IPoIB so that if the sm does support
>>> SendOnlyFullMember join requests, IPoIB will send such a request when
>>> joining a sendonly multicast group.
>>
>> What testing has this series received?
>>
> functional testing against new SM that supports that option and
> against old S that doesn't.
> regression and stress testing.
>

Anyway, I will send new series tomorrow with Hal's comments in (or
with more from others)

>>
>> --
>> Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>               GPG KeyID: 0E572FDD
>>
>>
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