UC Transport Service Type's Basic Characteristics
UC is a subset of the RC protocol. The responder's RQ Logic doesn't Ack or Nak each request packet it receives.
Disadvantage: The requester has no verification that each request packet has been received by the remote QP's RQ Logic.
Advantages:
- This protocol generates considerably less network traffic than RC.
- From the sender's perspective, the message transfer completes quickly (because it doesn't have to wait for the transfer to be acknoweldged).
The basic characteristics of the UC service type are:
Connection needed. Just like the RC protocol, before any messages may be transferred, a connection must be established between the UC QPs in the two adapters, and the QP Contexts of the two QPs ...
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