Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 Jun 2005 11:43:43 -0700 | From | Scott Bardone <> | Subject | Re: Kernel 2.6.12-rc6-mm1 & Chelsio driver |
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We modify the existing Linux TCP stack to add "hooks" so that our card can perform TCP offload and HW based checksum, thus making it possible to see high throughput with multiple connections and low CPU utilization.
We add 2 source files to the kernel, toedev.c and offload.c. We also modify neighbor.c, tcp.c, tcp_diag.c, tcp_ipv4.c, tcp_timer.c to add functions for our TOE capabilities so that the offloaded packet can be sent to our hardware (offload) path instead of going through the software (TCP stack) path.
Our processing engine is an ASIC with a HW based TCP stack which processes packets with Chelsio's CPL messages (Chelsio Protocol Language). I would not consider it a derived work.
-Scott
Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 07:19:46PM -0700, Scott Bardone wrote: > >>We currently don't have the TOE API in the Linux kernel so the TOE >>functionality does not exist, therefore you can only use the Chelsio >>modified 2.6.6 kernel for TOE. > > > Care to explain what modifications you do, and whether or not you consider > your card firmware a derived work of the TCP stack because of them? > - 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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