[ofa-general] IPOIB/CM increase retry counts
Tziporet Koren
tziporet at dev.mellanox.co.il
Thu Feb 14 03:32:23 PST 2008
Or Gerlitz wrote:
>
> For applications such as UDP based voice/video streaming,
> retransmitting this frame over and over might cause degradation in the
> service. With the current implementation maybe the 1st problem is the
> RC nature and the retries are only the 2nd but why add them.
>
> For for link (and below) layers reliability, IB has this 8-to-10 bits
> encoding, CRCs, L2 credit management, etc. So much is done below the
> IB transport legs anyway...
>
>
Maybe we should increase only the RnR number and not add any retries
Tziporet
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