Packet Trimming Deep Dive - Part I

Introduction The previous chapter introduced the Ultra Ethernet (UE) Transport Layer and its endpoint-centric congestion control mechanisms: Network Signaled Congestion Control (NSCC) and Receiver Credit-based Congestion Control (RCCC). This chapter moves down to the UE Network Layer and introduces Packet Trimming (PT). While node-based approaches rely on NIC-to-NIC feedback loops, Packet Trimming…