On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, David S. Miller wrote: > This is what has always happened in the past, people were preaching > for TOE back when 100Mbit ethernet was "new and fast". But you > certainly don't see anyone trying to justify TOE for those link > speeds today. The same will happen for 1Gbit and 10Gbit links > a year or so from now, the cpu, memory, and PCI bus will be fast > enough.
In that time frame people will have TOEs for even higher speeds. > TOE is therefore by definition a technology which we know will will > be deprecated for current link technologies over time. It is a > specialized hack, and once it's in we can never take it out of > the kernel. Why put in a specialized hack when the fully functional, > fully featureful, general purpose net stack is "good enough"? All technology will be depreciated over time. If we follow your line of thought then Linux network performance will be condemned to be only "good enough", beating the prior generation of network performance trendsetters and never be the top contender for network performance. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
