Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: InfiniBand BOF @ LSM - topics of interest | | Date | Wed, 15 May 2002 12:29:20 +0100 (BST) | | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> The thing about Infiniband is that its scope is so great. > If you consider Infiniband was only a glorified PCI with serial > connector, the congestion control is not an issue. Credits
Congestion control is always an issue 8
> are quite sufficient to provide per link flow control, and > everything would work nicely with a couple of switches. > Such was the original plan, anyways, but somehow cluster > ninjas managed to hijack the spec and we have the rabid > overengineering running amok. In fact, they ran so far > that Intel jumped ship and created PCI Express, and we > have discussions about congestion control. Sad, really...
My interest is in the question "does infiniband have usable congestion control for tcp/clustering/networking". I don't actually care if it doesn't and I'd rather have most congestion control in software anyway.
Alan
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