Messages in this thread | | | From | "David griego" <> | Subject | Re: Alan Shih: "TCP IP Offloading Interface" | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 2003 11:46:31 -0700 |
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IMHO, there are several cases for some type of TCP/IP offload. One is for embedded systems that are just not capable of doing 1Gbps+. Another is with 10GbE, even high end servers will not be able keep up with TCP processing/data movement at these speeds. Not being proactive in adopting TCP/IP offload will force Linux into accepting some scheme that will not necissarily be best.
>Alan Shih wrote: >>Has anyone worked on a standard interface between TOE and Linux? (ie. >>something like Trapeze/Myrinet's GMS?) >> >>Or TOE is a forbidden discussion? Any effort in making Linux the OS for >>TOE at all even though Linux is a little too heavy for it? > > > >I do not forsee there _ever_ being a TOE interface for Linux. > > >It's not a forbidden discussion, but, the networking developers tend to >ignore people who mention TOE because it's been discussed to death, and >no evidence has ever been presented to prove it has advantages where it >matters, and it has significant _dis_advantages from the get-go. > > >I really should write an LKML FAQ entry for TOE. > > > Jeff > > > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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