This discussion assumes a single fabric (e.g IB, or iWARP, etc) for network and file I/O between a set of nodes sharing storage.
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 12:38 -0400, Richard Frank wrote: > Some application level protocols - require higher QoS levels than others > - for various communication and I/O operations. > > For example, cluster inter-node health msgs have fixed latency > requirements that if exceeded may result in unexpected node removals > from the cluster. > > Are there any mechanisms available to the client process to manage the > QoS level for the various supported ULPs (SDP,TCP,UDP,RDS,SRP,iSER,etc) > either at the ULP level or some combination of process and ULP - or > perhaps even at the connection level ? > > Using the same example, the cluster node monitors might set the > priority / QoS level of the heart beats to be more important than normal > SRP/iSER traffic to ensure no starvation ? > > > > _______________________________________________ > openib-general mailing list > openib-general@openib.org > http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general > > To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general