[openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] Contribute RDS (ReliableDatagramSockets) to OpenIB

[Ranjit Pandit]

On 11/9/05, Greg Lindahl <lindahl at pathscale.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:57:06PM -0800, Michael Krause wrote:
>
> > What you indicate above is that RDS
> > will implement a resync of the two sides of the association to determine
> > what has been successfully sent.
>
> More accurate to say that it "could" implement that. I'm just
> kibbutzing on someone else's proposal.
>
> > This then implies that the reliability of the underlying
> > interconnect isn't as critical per se as the end-to-end RDS protocol
> > will assure that data is delivered to the RDS components in the face
> > of hardware failures.  Correct?
>
> Yes. That's the intent that I see in the proposal. The implementation
> required to actually support this may not be what the proposers had in
> mind.

The reference implementation of RDS already supports this.
It supports failover across HCAs just like APM does across ports within an HCA.

>
> This sort of message service, by the way, has a long history in
> distributed computing.
>
> -- greg
>
>
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