Say I have two remote actors. When executing a remote method of one of the remote actors, it invokes ray.get on a remote method of another actor. What exactly happens in this scenario? Is this invocation relayed through the master at all?
If you have two actors, A and B, and you execute a remote method of A, which executes a remote method of B and calls ray.get() on the result, the latter invocation of B’s remote method will be submitted directly by actor A to actor B, and the result will be returned directly to actor A, without going through the head node.
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