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

[Hal Rosenstock]

On 8/13/07, Sean Hefty <mshefty at ichips.intel.com> wrote:
> > In terms of the redirection fields (for the local subnet), right ?
>
> Yes - any field in ClassPortInfo named Redirect*.  I don't see that it
> needs to be limited to the local subnet.
>
> > I was referring to the implications on the partition configuration in
> > terms of the ports for the ib_sa module.
>
> I don't know that an implementation needs to handle different PKeys or
> GRH fields right away, but I don't believe that general SA redirection
> prohibits this.  (I really only care about the LID at the moment.)

Even in this case, it requires that the port(s) running the ib_sa
module are in the full members of the default partition whereas before
they might have been limited members.

> - Sean
>