From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dennis Dalessandro Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 0/3] Support out of order data placement Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:35:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20170612064918.12510-1-leon@kernel.org> <074a01d2e39f$edc28860$c9479920$@opengridcomputing.com> <3fa7a4b5-5c19-8c6a-d78b-93219a9be888@intel.com> <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373AB142A9B@ORSMSX109.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Parav Pandit , "Hefty, Sean" , Steve Wise , 'Leon Romanovsky' , 'Doug Ledford' Cc: "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Idan Burstein List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On 6/12/2017 4:14 PM, Parav Pandit wrote: > Hi Denny, Sean, > > As Sean explained, relaxed ordering/out-of-order packets, allows making efficient use of network resources. > When transmitter and receiver is enabled to do so, as I described in overview section of Documentation, it helps > (a) to avoid retransmission - improves network utilization > (b) reduces latency due to timers not kicking in. Yes those benefits are clear. I see no reason why it shouldn't always be done is my point. Application shouldn't have to care and there is no need to make this an additional flag. -Denny -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html