On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:12:09PM -0700, Caitlin Bestler ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> So the real issue is when there is an intelligent device that
> uses hardware packet classification to place the packet in
> the correct ring. We don't want to bypass packet filtering,
> but it would be terribly wasteful to reclassify the packet.
> Intelligent NICs will have packet classification capabilities
> to support RDMA and iSCSI. Those capabilities should be available
> to benefit SOCK_STREAM and SOCK_DGRAM users as well without it
> being a choice of either turning all stack control over to
> the NIC or ignorign all NIC capabilities beyound pretending
> to be a dumb Ethernet NIC.
Btw, how is it supposed to work without header split capabale hardware?
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
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