On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, David S. Miller wrote: > Christoph, you're a really bright guy, perhaps you can sit and come up > with some other ideas which would act as stateless alternatives to > TOE? I bet you can do it, if you would simply try...
I worked through the alternatives last year including some of the large packet tricks that are not really standard conformant. None of these was really satisfactory and I ended up wasting a lot of my consulting time for a vendor. They finally gave up on jumbo packets that I used to favor. The basic issue is the fundamental design of the TCP layer. If we could redesign that layer then we may be able to come up with a stateless protocol but we are condemmned to follow TCP standard. Offload technology is inevitable as far as I can see and Chelsio has the most innovative design in harmony with Linux design principles that I know of. They have developed an API that will also allow other vendors to hook into our tcp layer. Lets at least give this a try. They are willing to commit resources to get this going. - 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
