Many Issues Are Outside the Scope of the Specification
The following issues related to the discovery process and to the SM are outside the scope of the specification:
The discovery algorithm.
How routes are added/deleted.
The procedure for handling failover from the Master SM to a Standby SM.
SM priority assignment.
SM_Key assignment and usage (more later).
SM-to-OS (or whatever) interface.
The interval at which the Standby SMs poll the Master SM.
Get InfiniBand Network Architecture now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
