[ofiwg] completion flags as actually defined by OFI
Hefty, Sean
sean.hefty at intel.com
Tue Apr 14 15:00:40 PDT 2015
> > "DDP Message transfer is considered completed when the reliable, in-
> > order transport LLP has indicated that the transfer will occur
> reliably."
> >
>
> You skipped the important second half of that paragraph of RFC5041:
>
> At the Data Source, DDP Message transfer is considered completed when
> the reliable, in-order transport LLP has indicated that the transfer
> will occur reliably. Note that this in no way restricts the LLP from
> buffering the data at either the Data Source or Data Sink. Thus, at
> the Data Source, completion of a DDP Message does not necessarily
> mean that the Data Sink has received the message.
I apparently have a very different interpretation than the iwarp spec writers of what it means to say "that the transfer will occur reliably".
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