[ofa-general] RE: [Query] ib add path record cache

[Sean Hefty]

>This can be treated as a facility similar to what we have in ARP table
>for TCP/IP. Secondly this will help in debugging of some new up-coming
>partially infiniband complaint hardware.

But unless such a path actually exists to the remote node, I don't see that it's
useful.  And if such a path exists, I would expect it to be returned by the SA.
Can you clarify its use more wrt the subnet in general?

>yes, I want them to remain in the DB, my idea is similar to the hard
>coding of ARP table entries in TCP/IP.
>How do you see this can be achieved?

A simple flag or setting the update counter on the added path to the maximum
should be sufficient.

- Sean