From: Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:29:05 -0700
> Nirvana I suppose would be the addition of a field in the header > which could be used for the determination of where to process. A > Transport Protocol option I suppose, maybe the IPv6 flow id, but > knuth only knows if anyone would go for something along those lines. > It does though mean that the "state" is per-packet without it having > to be based on addressing information. Almost like RDMA arriving > saying where the data goes, but this thing says where the processing > should happen :) Since the full interpretation of the TCP timestamp option field value is largely local to the peer setting it, there is nothing wrong with stealing a few bits for destination cpu information. It would have to be done in such a way as to not make the PAWS tests fail by accident. But I think it's doable. - 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
