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

[Bob Woodruff]

Todd wrote,
>This would miss the second major improvement of RDS, namely removing the
need for >the application to perform timeouts and retries on datagram
packets.  If Oracle 
>ran over UDP/IP/IPoIB it would not be guaranteed a loss-less reliable
interface.  >If UDP/IP/IPoIB provided a loss-less reliable interface it
would likely break or >affect other UDP applications which are expecting a
flow controlled interface.

>Todd Rimmer

Then use SCTP instead of UDP, which already provides a loss-less reliable
interface.
If SCTP has problems with the number of endpoints it can currently support,
why not just fix that problem and fix IpoIB to use a connected model to
increase performance, rather than inventing a completly new protocol and/or
address family.  

Just a thought.

woody