Re: WG chair on buffer exhaustion

Caitlin Bestler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rddp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 07:52 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> If this class of mechanism is needed, that sort of delay may
> be ok.  The determining factors will be the level and nature
> of protection of the shared untagged receive resources from
> exhaustion that is necessary, and "necessary" will probably
> be in the sense of "available to the ULP" (i.e., "MUST implement",
> not "MUST use").

Which suggests that the obvious set of options to consider are:

- MUST support hard or soft limits. MAY support both.
- MUST support hard limits. MAY support soft.
- MUST support soft limits. MAY support hard.
- MUST support hard and soft limits (but not necessarily
   both limits on any single stream).

My initial hunch is to favor the first or the last option,
with a slight preference for the last one.



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