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-rw-r--r--drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c22
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c
index 3313100..136cbef 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c
@@ -508,17 +508,19 @@ static void ipoib_mcast_join(struct net_device *dev, struct ipoib_mcast *mcast)
rec.hop_limit = priv->broadcast->mcmember.hop_limit;
/*
- * Historically Linux IPoIB has never properly supported SEND
- * ONLY join. It emulated it by not providing all the required
- * attributes, which is enough to prevent group creation and
- * detect if there are full members or not. A major problem
- * with supporting SEND ONLY is detecting when the group is
- * auto-destroyed as IPoIB will cache the MLID..
+ * Send-only IB Multicast joins do not work at the core
+ * IB layer yet, so we can't use them here. However,
+ * we are emulating an Ethernet multicast send, which
+ * does not require a multicast subscription and will
+ * still send properly. The most appropriate thing to
+ * do is to create the group if it doesn't exist as that
+ * most closely emulates the behavior, from a user space
+ * application perspecitive, of Ethernet multicast
+ * operation. For now, we do a full join, maybe later
+ * when the core IB layers support send only joins we
+ * will use them.
*/
-#if 1
- if (test_bit(IPOIB_MCAST_FLAG_SENDONLY, &mcast->flags))
- comp_mask &= ~IB_SA_MCMEMBER_REC_TRAFFIC_CLASS;
-#else
+#if 0
if (test_bit(IPOIB_MCAST_FLAG_SENDONLY, &mcast->flags))
rec.join_state = 4;
#endif