[ofa-general] Re: RFCv2: SRC API

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Tang, Changqing <changquing.tang at hp.com>:
> Subject: RE: RFCv2: SRC API
> 
>  
> > Cleanup:
> > When job j1 does not need to communicate to any jobs on node 
> > n, it disconnects qp1 from qp2, and asks j2 to destroy qp2.
> > +
> > +Note: both qp1 and qp2 must exist for the communication to 
> > take place.
> > +Thus, j2 should not destroy qp2 (and in particular, should not exit) 
> > +until j1 has completed communication with node n and has asked j2 to 
> > +disconnect.
> > 
> Thanks. 
> 
> Another question. if a node n has 8 jobs, say, j2-j9, usually the first
> job j2 is the one to create the SRC
> domain(other jobs just attach and share) and it make sense to let j2 to
> create all the receiving QPs for all other
> remote jobs and make all the connections. (we can do in roundrobin way,
> but more work).

Sure, creating allconnections upfront will work to, this is just a usage example.

> Is there any performance worry to let j2(the first job on a node) to do
> all the "work" ?

How do you mean?

> What is the latency of SRC+SRQ ?

I'd expect it to be more or less the same as regular SRQ.

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