Re: [PATCH] RDMA/CMA: Use neigh_event_send() to initiate neighbourdiscovery.

[Steve Wise]

Once this is applied upstream, I can pull it back in to ofed-1.2.5 and 
ofed-1.3.

Steve.

Sean Hefty wrote:
> > RDMA/CMA: Use neigh_event_send() to initiate neighbour discovery.
> >
> > Calling arp_send() to initiate neighbour discovery (ND) doesn't do the
> > full ND protocol.  Namely, it doesn't handle retransmitting the arp
> > request if it is dropped. The function neigh_event_send() does all this.
> > Without doing full ND, rdma address resolution fails in the presence of
> > dropped arp bcast packets.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Roland - can you please queue this up for 2.6.24?
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