[ofa-general] [RFC] the never ending search for SA scalability

[Roland Dreier]

 > > My first reaction to this is to wonder why we wouldn't just use
 > > redirection as already specified in the IB architecture?  It seems
 > > that having something that has to be set manually and that breaks all
 > > communication if it is set wrong is a bad idea.
 > 
 > This requires changes to the SAs to send the redirect message in
 > response to a query initiated by the host.  I was trying to avoid
 > creating an actual distributed SA.

Don't you need a distributed SA for your idea to work?  Otherwise what
happens if node A sets a service record at SA LID X, and then node B
sends a query for that service record at SA LID Y?

 - R.