
• IB transport layer provides a message-level communication
granularity, not byte-level (unlike TCP)
• Application can hand over a large message
– Network adapter segments it to MTU sized packets
– Single notification when the entire message is transmitted or
received (not per packet)
• Reduced host overhead to send/receive messages
– Depends on the number of messages, not the number of bytes
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