[openib-general] SA cache design

[Sean Hefty]

Rimmer, Todd wrote:
> 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.

That should still only be P queries per node, with P = number of processes on a 
node.  Why doesn't a single query (GET_TABLE) suffice for each process?

- Sean