[ofa-general] [PATCH] ipoib: refresh path when remote lid changes

[Moni Shoua]

>     > Is the LMC in the above from the local port ? Unfortunately, LMC
>     is not
>     > required to be uniform across the subnet so the remote port's LMC may
>     > not be the same as that on the local port.
> 
>     opensm configures the same LMC to all endports (CA) in the fabric so
>     in which case do you suspect that
>     it will be different?
> 
>  
> I wasn't talking about the simplification that OpenSM uses but rather
> what IBA allows. There may be other SMs which do this or OpenSM could be
> extended (with additional configuration for this).
>  
> -- Hal

So I guess a possible solutions for that is to query each suspected node before making a decision to flush it.
When getting the node info response the true LMC can be put in the LID check function.