From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH net/for-next V1 1/1] IB/ipoib: break linkage to neighbouring system Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:24:25 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: References: <50082183.5000402@mellanox.com> <500833D9.8000001@mellanox.com> <20120719.100850.1932622478297549573.davem@davemloft.net> <500B8FBE.4030600@mellanox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <500B8FBE.4030600-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Or Gerlitz Cc: David Miller , shlomop-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org, roland-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, erezsh-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 22 Jul 2012, Or Gerlitz wrote: > On 7/19/2012 8:08 PM, David Miller wrote: > > These numbers come from the IPV6 Neighbour Discovery RFCs. IPV4 replicates > > the Neighbour Unreachability Detection schemes of IPV6 in pretty much it's > > entirety, and therefore takes on the same timeout et al. parameters. > > OK, got it. At this point, I guess we should enhance the patch to use the > values plugged into the IPv4 arp table at the time IPoIB is loaded, with > arp_tbl being exported its easy to achieve. This would allow users to use > non-default values by the ipoib neigh handling logic. In a later step, we need > to see if/how to allow ipoib to use the already existing sysctl entries, makes > sense? Sounds about right. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html