On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 10:52:16AM -0700, Parav Pandit wrote: > Yes. we have the module parameter option in this series. > I came across a user who didn't have LOM nics. > They are directly using rdma nics in their cluster as primary and > only interface. This is very common for IB clusters, a dedicated ethernet management network is a very expensive component at large scale. > I do not know if such IB based networks exist. And if they do, when > they change this mode, they will have connectivity loss. Or they have to change modes before setting up ipoib. It is much less useful. > So we probably shouldn't be doing client unregister-register > sequence as part of this sys operation done by advance user. Provide a 'rdma ulp-restart' netlink command that does the enable/disable sequence? Jason
