Resource exhaustion recovery in ordered networks

A source compute node comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
• send a message to a destination compute node, the message comprising a first value of a generation number of a processing table entry at the destination compute node;
• receive a first semantic response from the destination compute node, the first semantic response indicating resource exhaustion of the processing table entry;
• wait a predetermined duration in response to receiving the first semantic response;
• and
• resend the message to the destination compute node after the wait of the predetermined duration, the message comprising a second value of the generation number of the processing table entry, the second value different than the first value.

A system comprising:

• a destination compute node comprising a message processing table, the message processing table comprising a processing table entry, the processing table entry comprising a generation number;
• and
• a source compute node configured to:
• send a plurality of messages to the destination compute node in a particular order, each of the messages sent with a first value of the generation number of the processing table entry;
• receive a semantic response from the destination compute node, the semantic response indicating generational mismatch with the processing table entry;
• and
• resend the messages to the destination compute node in the particular order, each of the messages resent with a second value of the generation number of the processing table entry, the second value different than the first value.