[openib-general] IB: I don't like what I'm seeing.

Thu Apr 1 07:21:09 PST 2004

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Stephen Poole wrote:

> >Does the assumption that the application is the only thing that can give
> >you end-to-end data integrity remove all value provided by RC/UC
> >services and RDMA?
> 
> IMHO No.

yeah, I think I agree here maybe. If RC hides problems from software until 
they really get bad, well, that's not so good. Sometimes if software sees 
lots of errors it can take action. 

On the other hand, it's nice to have the ECC on the card, as it saves 
cycles in the CPU.

ron

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