[openib-general] Re: Re: RFC: e2e credits

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 16:37, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> I thought about this, and I noted that with current CM
> the flow control flag is already set by ULP, per connection.
> I currently don't see this as spec violation: there's no compliance statement
> that requires this bit to have the same value for all connections. The spec
> says:
> "Signifies whether the local CA actually implements End-to-End Flow Control
> (1), or instead always advertises .invalid credits.(0)."
> and we just take this meaning, with a clarification: "for this connection".

I'd be curious what the CM authors would think of this as to whether it
is a clarification and their original intent or not.

-- Hal