[ofa-general] IPOIB/CM increase retry counts

[Shirley Ma]

On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 09:00 -0800, Sean Hefty wrote:
> >Saying all that, I don't think we want to have --any RNR retries--, as
> >for retries, I am open to hear what others think.
> 
> I'm really not all that familiar with ipoib protocol, but if it's being
> implemented over an RC connection, then adding an RNR retry seems to make sense
> to me.  I believe using UC is better, but if it's over RC, I don't know that we
> want to take the hit of tearing down and re-establishing the connection just
> because we have a fast sender.  (This is just an opinion based on no fact
> whatsoever.)
> 
> - Sean

Did anyone ever run IPoIB-CM (multiple sockets and multiple connections)
between ipath and mthca or connectX and mthca? I guess there might be a
similar issue there, mismatched send rates.

thanks
Shirley