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

[Rick Frank]

RDS is UDP protocol with reliability added - it remains connectionless from 
the consumer perspective.

SDP is connection based - at least currently.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Hefty" <mshefty at ichips.intel.com>
To: "Grant Grundler" <iod00d at hp.com>
Cc: "Rick Frank" <Richard.Frank at oracle.com>; "Kothanda Umamageswaran (Kodi) 
(E-mail)" <Kothanda.Umamageswaran at oracle.com>; "Sumanta Chatterjee" 
<sumanta.chatterjee at oracle.com>; <openib-general at openib.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: [openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] Contribute RDS (Reliable 
DatagramSockets) to OpenIB


> Grant Grundler wrote:
>> But as Roland said, RDS doesn't even have a Makefile.
>> I've reviewed some of it shortly after it got dropped in but
>> still need to go through alot more of the code.
>
> The code that I've looked at doesn't appear to be written to any of the 
> openib code.  A Makefile wouldn't help, since I don't think that any of it 
> would compile anyway.  Porting it to openib will be a major rewrite.
>
>> 2) include some docs on it's use and why RDS is better than SDP.
>
> Does someone have a link to a doc or presentation on why RDS is better 
> than SDP? Or better yet, some actual data showing how it provides better 
> performance or scalability?
>
> - Sean
>