Re: Alan Shih: "TCP IP Offloading Interface"

["David griego" <dagriego@hotmail.com>]

IMHO, there are several cases for some type of TCP/IP offload.  One is for 
embedded systems that are just not capable of doing 1Gbps+.  Another is with 
10GbE, even high end servers will not be able keep up with TCP 
processing/data movement at these speeds.  Not being proactive in adopting 
TCP/IP offload will force Linux into accepting some scheme that will not 
necissarily be best.


>Alan Shih wrote:
>>Has anyone worked on a standard interface between TOE and Linux? (ie. 
>>something like Trapeze/Myrinet's GMS?)
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>>Or TOE is a forbidden discussion? Any effort in making Linux the OS for 
>>TOE at all even though Linux is a little too heavy for it?
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>I do not forsee there _ever_ being a TOE interface for Linux.
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>It's not a forbidden discussion, but, the networking developers tend to
>ignore people who mention TOE because it's been discussed to death, and
>no evidence has ever been presented to prove it has advantages where it
>matters, and it has significant _dis_advantages from the get-go.
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>I really should write an LKML FAQ entry for TOE.
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>        Jeff
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