Re: [PATCH for-next 13/16] IB/{hfi1, ipoib, rdma}: Broadcast ping sent packets which exceeded mtu size

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On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 08:19:44AM -0500, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
> From: Gary Leshner <Gary.S.Leshner@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> When in connected mode ipoib sent broadcast pings which exceeded the mtu
> size for broadcast addresses.
>
> Add an mtu attribute to the rdma_netdev structure which ipoib sets to its
> mcast mtu size.
> 
> The RDMA netdev uses this value to determine if the skb length is too long
> for the mtu specified and if it is, drops the packet and logs an error
> about the errant packet.

I'm confused by this comment, connected mode is not able to use
rdma_netdev, for various technical reason, I thought?

Is this somehow running a rdma_netdev concurrently with connected
mode? How?

Jason



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