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

[Rick Frank]

SCTP is connection based - we have many dependencies on our connectionless 
datagram model.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Woodruff" <robert.j.woodruff at intel.com>
To: "'Rimmer, Todd'" <trimmer at silverstorm.com>; "Caitlin Bestler" 
<caitlinb at broadcom.com>; "Rick Frank" <Richard.Frank at oracle.com>; "Pandit, 
Ranjit" <rpandit at silverstorm.com>; "Grant Grundler" <iod00d at hp.com>
Cc: <openib-general at openib.org>
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 6:10 PM
Subject: RE: [openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] Contribute 
RDS(ReliableDatagramSockets) to OpenIB


> 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
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