RDMA/cma: Add RDMA_CM_EVENT_ADDR_CHANGE event

Add an RDMA_CM_EVENT_ADDR_CHANGE event can be used by rdma-cm
consumers that wish to have their RDMA sessions always use the same
links (eg <hca/port>) as the IP stack does.  In the current code, this
does not happen when bonding is used and fail-over happened but the IB
link used by an already existing session is operating fine.

Use the netevent notification for sensing that a change has happened
in the IP stack, then scan the rdma-cm ID list to see if there is an
ID that is "misaligned" with respect to the IP stack, and deliver
RDMA_CM_EVENT_ADDR_CHANGE for this ID.  The consumer can act on the
event or just ignore it.

Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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Or Gerlitz
2008-07-22 14:14:22 -07:00
committed by Roland Dreier
parent d35cb360c2
commit dd5bdff83b
2 changed files with 94 additions and 1 deletions
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@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ enum rdma_cm_event_type {
RDMA_CM_EVENT_DISCONNECTED,
RDMA_CM_EVENT_DEVICE_REMOVAL,
RDMA_CM_EVENT_MULTICAST_JOIN,
RDMA_CM_EVENT_MULTICAST_ERROR
RDMA_CM_EVENT_MULTICAST_ERROR,
RDMA_CM_EVENT_ADDR_CHANGE
};
enum rdma_port_space {