From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263152AbTGMOgy (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2003 10:36:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268843AbTGMOgy (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2003 10:36:54 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:45740 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263152AbTGMOgx (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2003 10:36:53 -0400 Message-ID: <3F1171E3.3060303@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 10:51:15 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Shih CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: TCP IP Offloading Interface References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Shih wrote: > Has anyone worked on a standard interface between TOE and Linux? (ie. > something like Trapeze/Myrinet's GMS?) > > 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? I do not forsee there _ever_ being a TOE interface for Linux. 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. I really should write an LKML FAQ entry for TOE. Jeff