From: "Wael Noureddine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 13:46:33 -0700
> That's a good point. Why not offer both alternatives and let the > customers decide what they want? Why would there be a veto against TOE > if it can be supported non-intrusively and with virtually no changes to > the software stack? If a stateless solution exists, it is preferred purely on technical merits due to maintainability, invasiveness, and network stack feature preservation (netfilter, packet classification and scheduling, etc.) Once a feature goes in, it typicaly is impossible to take it out. So I'd rather this issue figure itself out before either solution gets integrated. But by in large, if a stateless alternative ever exists to get the same performance benefit as TOE, it will undoubtedly be preferred by the Linux networking maintainers, by in large. So you TOE guys are fighting more than an uphill battle. - 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
