[ofa-general] Further 2.6.23 merge plans...

[Or Gerlitz]

Sean Hefty wrote:

> The local SA exposes the ability for a user space
> application to force an update of the cache, and leaves the refresh policy up to
> the user.  In our use model, we force a refresh immediately before starting a
> large MPI job.

The last statement left me confused... if you refresh the cache before 
you use it (spawn large MPI job) what does it buys you at all?!

Also how is the forced update mechanism being implemented?

Or.