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by hinkley
1216 days ago
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If you need to go that fast why not implement a layer 2 protocol? The point of these abstractions is that they are insurance. We pay taxes on best case scenarios all the time in order to avoid or clamp worst case scenarios. When industries start chasing that last 5% by gambling on removing resiliency, that usually ends poorly for the rest of us. See also train lines in the US. |
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How? Datacenters aren't a single link, you need to route packets.
> The point of these abstractions is that they are insurance. We pay taxes on best case scenarios all the time in order to avoid or clamp worst case scenarios. When industries start chasing that last 5% by gambling on removing resiliency, that usually ends poorly for the rest of us.
I'm not sure what this means. There are other transport level protocols already, UDP is in fairly regular use. Is your argument that TCP offers us some insurance that Homa will not?