On Fri, 10 Apr 2015, Bob Ciotti wrote: > > Well applications can screw up yes but the fabric *IS* lossless. > > This is a very bad assumption. Fabric *is not* lossless. I guess then we need to get our money back because it was advertised to be lossless.... > Packet loss happens - for various reasons that are typically specific to the > environment. Right. Even the most reliable transport will not work if someone goes postal and gets a big sledgehammer and starts hitting the equipment with that. > If HW never broke, and systems were never overloaded, room temperatures never > fluctuated, IB > cables were always reliable... Its not that uncommon to see packet loss on a > perfectly functioning > (large) system let alone one thats having HW issues... If things break then yes but otherwise the fabric is expected to behave as advertised. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
