1. 11 10月, 2007 2 次提交
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      IPoIB: Allow setting policy to ignore multicast groups · 335a64a5
      Or Gerlitz 提交于
      The kernel IB stack allows (through the RDMA CM) userspace
      applications to join and use multicast groups from the IPoIB MGID
      range.  This allows multicast traffic to be handled directly from
      userspace QPs, without going through the kernel stack, which gives
      better performance for some applications.
      
      However, to fully interoperate with IP multicast, such userspace
      applications need to participate in IGMP reports and queries, or else
      routers may not forward the multicast traffic to the system where the
      application is running.  The simplest way to do this is to share the
      kernel IGMP implementation by using the IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP option to
      join multicast groups that are being handled directly in userspace.
      
      However, in such cases, the actual multicast traffic should not also
      be handled by the IPoIB interface, because that would burn resources
      handling multicast packets that will just be discarded in the kernel.
      
      To handle this, this patch adds lookup on the database used for IB
      multicast group reference counting when IPoIB is joining multicast
      groups, and if a multicast group is already handled by user space,
      then the IPoIB kernel driver ignores the group.  This is controlled by
      a per-interface policy flag.  When the flag is set, IPoIB will not
      join and attach its QP to a multicast group which already has an entry
      in the database; when the flag is cleared, IPoIB will behave as before
      this change.
      
      For each IPoIB interface, the /sys/class/net/$intf/umcast attribute
      controls the policy flag.  The default value is off/0.
      Signed-off-by: NOr Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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