UC Is a Subset of RC

Quite simply, the UC transport service type is a subset of the RC transport service type. In the UC transport service type, no responses are expected. Software on the sender's end is therefore alerted that a message transfer has completed immediately upon the transmission of the last request packet of the Send or RDMA Write. RDMA Reads and Atomic requests are not supported.

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