[PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 84/98] IB/core: Use GRH when the path hop-limit > 0

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Mar 15 23:31:18 UTC 2016


4.2.8-ckt6 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz at mellanox.com>

commit 11d8d645343efba0c975aefe7c2cf3b33c836c75 upstream.

According to IBTA spec v1.3 section 12.7.19, QPs should use GRH when
the path returned by the SA has hop-limit > 0. Currently, we do that
only for the > 1 case, fix that.

Fixes: 6d969a471ba1 ('IB/sa: Add ib_init_ah_from_path()')
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz at mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>
[ kamal: backport to 4.2-stable: context ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c
index ca919f4..e099913 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ int ib_init_ah_from_path(struct ib_device *device, u8 port_num,
 
 	force_grh = rdma_cap_eth_ah(device, port_num);
 
-	if (rec->hop_limit > 1 || force_grh) {
+	if (rec->hop_limit > 0 || force_grh) {
 		ah_attr->ah_flags = IB_AH_GRH;
 		ah_attr->grh.dgid = rec->dgid;
 
-- 
2.7.0





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