[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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