Re: Deadlocking in the transport

Dmitri Tikhonov <dtikhonov@litespeedtech.com> Wed, 10 January 2018 07:05 UTC

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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 02:05:43 -0500
From: Dmitri Tikhonov <dtikhonov@litespeedtech.com>
To: Jana Iyengar <jri@google.com>
Cc: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, QUIC WG <quic@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: Deadlocking in the transport
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 10:49:28PM -0800, Jana Iyengar wrote:
> Protocols that create inter-stream dependency should be able to express
> that in priorities down to the transport, which I believe is expected to be
> part of the API. I believe that handles this issue, doesn't it?

When it comes to priorities, the QUIC I-D gives implementations
some leeway [1].  One cannot guarantee that a conforming
implementation will not deadlock.

  - Dmitri.

1. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-quic-transport-08#section-10.6