[openib-general] [PATCH 0/4] SA path record caching

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 13:36, Sean Hefty wrote:
> Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > It's able to choose SGID and/or DGID as explicit GIDs, GIDs from same
> > node or GIDs from same system, request multiple SGID/DGID pairs in one
> > request, and request varying path independence (as fault tolerant as
> > possible or not).
> 
> I see where a MultiPathRecord contains a path independence field.  But since it 
> only provides a single value for all other PathRecord fields for all SGID/DGID 
> pairs, it seems less flexible than PathRecords.

It depends on whether those components are wildcarded or not.

> It's also missing LID information, 

Yes but is LID needed in the query ?

> and limits the number of DGIDs to 255.

Actually the number if lower as I think it is limited by the remaining
bits in the component mask.

> What I'm not understanding is how I can replace PathRecords with 
> MultiPathRecords or how to make full use of MultiPathRecords.

I'm not quite sure how to answer this as I don't think I have enough
information on what the question(s) is/are.

-- Hal

> - Sean