Steve Wise Wrote: -----Original Message-----
Devesh Sharma wrote: > On 5/24/07, Gleb Natapov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Does local RDMA write completion guaranties that a data that was >> RDMAed is >> already accessible in a destination's host _memory_? > Local RDMA write completion guarantees that the data you have RDMAed > has been copied into the remote buffer, without any data corruption. >> For iWARP, the local write completion simply means you can reuse the local buffer and the the transport will deliver it or kill the connection. The data _could_ be queued in the local rnic and anywhere else in the tcp cloud. _______________________________________________ And The only real difference with InfiniBand is that the uncertainty cloud is limited to the gap between the HCA and the application. Protocol designers can debate the tradeoffs InfiniBand takes to achieve that, but the import thing to Application Designers is that "smaller" is not "zero". Generally, once a Send has been posted that all other interactions with the remote peer over the same connection can assume that the prior actions have completed, but if your application needs an absolute guarantee that something has happened (for checkpointing or other purposes) then you really can only rely on a peer-to-peer message. _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
