[openib-general] MAD queuing model

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 18:56, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     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.

Couldn't a send completion with some error status code be fudged for
this (of we were to go this way) ?

-- Hal