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

[Devesh Sharma]

On 5/31/07, Sean Hefty <sean.hefty at intel.com> wrote:
> >Ok, Soon I will post a patch related to this.
> >How static PR file will be generated? Needs to be discussed.
>
> Please look at my latest changes to the local SA in when generating the patches.
>
> git://git.openfabrics.org/~shefty/rdma-dev.git sa_cache
>
Do you have some pointer/doc related to the design of current SA_CACHE
module....It will make things faster to understand........if not then
I will require your support to understand the things, Though I have
some top level view.
Thanks
> I'm not sure about the best way to communicate PRs to the cache.  I haven't
> given it more than about 2 minutes of thought, but as an idea, we could look at
> trying to make use of the userspace MAD interface.  For example, we could send
> MADs to the local SA with the PRs to load.  More details would obviously need to
> be worked out, but this could provide an extensible solution.
Ok you mean Its not required to create a separate device interface in
cache module as such. I think this is a good idea......Just for
confirmation...whether /dev/umad is active on each node other than SM
node?
>
> - Sean
>