Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, David S. Miller wrote:
And once again it will be "niche", and very far from commodity.
A specialized optimization for a very small and specialized audience,
ie. not appropriate for Linux upstream.
The TOE method will gradually become standard simply because it allows
performance that cannot be obtained now with existing hardware. And we
may be at some speed boundary for the hardware given the limitations on
clock frequency.
False.
Each TOE implementation is locked in time by the speed of the NIC.
Given time, the network stack will -exceed- the speed of today's TOE NICs.
You can see this with 100mbps TOE NICs, which are slower than today's
software net stack, with today's software net stack being more
featureful at the same time.
Jeff
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