Location of the SA

Each SM incorporates an SA. Whether or not an SM's SA actually resides at the same physical location (i.e., the same port/QP combination) as the SM is SM implementation-specific. The location (i.e., port LID address) of the Master SM is stored each port's PortInfo.MasterSMLID attribute element. The location of the Master SM's SA may be ascertained in one of two ways:

  1. Performing a read of the SA's ClassPortInfo attribute by issuing a SubnAdm Get(ClassPortInfo) GMP to the port specified by the issuing port's PortInfo.MasterSMLID attribute element. The GMP must have the following characteristics:

    - The SL used must be the one specified in the PortInfo.MasterSMSL attribute element.

    - The packet's SLID must be set to the base LID ...

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