[openib-general] MAD queuing model

Roland Dreier roland at topspin.com
Wed Sep 1 15:56:24 PDT 2004


    Michael> I'd like to propose a simpler approach: if the Q is full,
    Michael> drop the MAD without any indication to the user (pretend
    Michael> the MAD was sent), and let RMPP retry.

It's an interesting idea (sort of the most trivial possible queue
scheduler).  However I don't see how you handle the fact that the
consumer will be waiting for a send completion to free the MAD, and I
think the consumer will rely on completions occurring in order.

 - R.



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