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IPoIB: Use multicast loopback blocking if available

Set IB_QP_CREATE_BLOCK_MULTICAST_LOOPBACK for IPoIB's UD QPs if
supported by the underlying device.  This creates an improvement of up
to 39% in bandwidth when sending multicast packets with IPoIB, and an
improvment of 12% in cpu usage.

Signed-off-by: Ron Livne <ronli@voltaire.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Ron Livne 17 years ago
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1 changed files with 4 additions and 1 deletions
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      drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_verbs.c

+ 4 - 1
drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_verbs.c

@@ -199,7 +199,10 @@ int ipoib_transport_dev_init(struct net_device *dev, struct ib_device *ca)
 	init_attr.recv_cq = priv->recv_cq;
 
 	if (priv->hca_caps & IB_DEVICE_UD_TSO)
-		init_attr.create_flags = IB_QP_CREATE_IPOIB_UD_LSO;
+		init_attr.create_flags |= IB_QP_CREATE_IPOIB_UD_LSO;
+
+	if (priv->hca_caps & IB_DEVICE_BLOCK_MULTICAST_LOOPBACK)
+		init_attr.create_flags |= IB_QP_CREATE_BLOCK_MULTICAST_LOOPBACK;
 
 	if (dev->features & NETIF_F_SG)
 		init_attr.cap.max_send_sge = MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1;