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authorOr Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com>2008-03-11 16:10:02 +0200
committerRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>2008-03-11 14:12:03 -0700
commitb3e2749bf32f61e7beb259eb7cfb066d2ec6ad65 (patch)
tree3fb0ce0dd2c470b00a9bb942c163fd77f2a1dc51 /drivers/infiniband
parent450bb3875f5f5ab3679823c941d6045d16967370 (diff)
IPoIB: Don't drop multicast sends when they can be queued
When set_multicast_list() is called the multicast task is restarted and the IPOIB_MCAST_STARTED bit is cleared. As a result for some window of time, multicast packets are not transmitted nor queued but rather dropped by ipoib_mcast_send(). These dropped packets are painful in two cases: - bonding fail-over which both calls set_multicast_list() on the new active slave and sends Gratuitous ARP through that slave. - IP_DROP_MEMBERSHIP code which both calls set_multicast_list() on the device and issues IGMP leave. In both these cases, depending on the scheduling of the IPoIB multicast task, the packets would be dropped. As a result, in the bonding case, the failover would not be detected by the peers until their neighbour is renewed the neighbour (which takes a few tens of seconds). In the IGMP case, the IP router doesn't get an IGMP leave and would only learn on that from further probes on the group (also a delay of at least a few tens of seconds). Fix this by allowing transmission (or queuing) depending on the IPOIB_FLAG_OPER_UP flag instead of the IPOIB_MCAST_STARTED flag. Signed-off-by: Olga Shern <olgas@voltaire.com> Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/infiniband')
-rw-r--r--drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c
index 2628339e3a9..31a53c5bcb1 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c
@@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ void ipoib_mcast_send(struct net_device *dev, void *mgid, struct sk_buff *skb)
*/
spin_lock(&priv->lock);
- if (!test_bit(IPOIB_MCAST_STARTED, &priv->flags) ||
+ if (!test_bit(IPOIB_FLAG_OPER_UP, &priv->flags) ||
!priv->broadcast ||
!test_bit(IPOIB_MCAST_FLAG_ATTACHED, &priv->broadcast->flags)) {
++dev->stats.tx_dropped;