[openib-general] SA cache design

[Rimmer, Todd]

> From: Sean Hefty [mailto:mshefty at ichips.intel.com]
> > why ask the SA the same question multiple times in a row?
> 
> I have no idea why the application did this.  Are any of the 
> queries in this 
> case actually the same?

Each MPI process is independent.  However they all need to get pathrecords
for all the other processes/nodes in the system.
Hence, each process on a node will make the exact same set of queries.

Todd R.