From: Digital Aryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:18:45 +0530
> And seeing what has happened during 100Mbit, 1Gbit and 10Gbit it seems > reqirements for networking are always "one step ahead" and the cpu, memory, > bus-bandwidth will take time to match the requirements. Had this evllution > been fast enough I wonder if we would have included TSO/LSO support or > for that matter even the checksum offload in the stack. The full featured, > generalised network stack would have "done it all". The important point is that all of the "offloading" is completely stateless. And I continually, and vehemently, contend that stateless offloading is enough, and is highly desirable because it requires none of the internals exposure nonsense that TOE requires. And once Microsoft defines an interface for a stateless offload in their NDI, every network card vendor tends to implement it in their hardware. Wouldn't you rather have a commoditized $40.00USD gigabit network card that got TOE level performance? I guess that question's answer depends upon whether you have some financial state in a company doing TOE :-) - 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
