
• IB provides three-levels of communication throttling/control
mechanisms
– Link-level flow control (link layer feature)
– Message-level flow control (transport layer feature): discussed later
– Congestion control (part of the link layer features)
• IB provides an absolute credit-based flow-control
– Receiver guarantees that enough space is allotted for N blocks of data
– Occasional update of available credits by the receiver
• Has no relation to the number of messages, but only to the
total amount of data being sent
– One 1MB message is equivalent to 1024 1KB messages (except for
rounding off at message boundaries)
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