On 11/9/05, Greg Lindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:57:06PM -0800, Michael Krause wrote: > > > What you indicate above is that RDS > > will implement a resync of the two sides of the association to determine > > what has been successfully sent. > > More accurate to say that it "could" implement that. I'm just > kibbutzing on someone else's proposal. > > > This then implies that the reliability of the underlying > > interconnect isn't as critical per se as the end-to-end RDS protocol > > will assure that data is delivered to the RDS components in the face > > of hardware failures. Correct? > > Yes. That's the intent that I see in the proposal. The implementation > required to actually support this may not be what the proposers had in > mind.
The reference implementation of RDS already supports this. It supports failover across HCAs just like APM does across ports within an HCA. > > This sort of message service, by the way, has a long history in > distributed computing. > > -- greg > > > _______________________________________________ > openib-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general > > To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general > _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
