Re: Network device driver KPI/ABI and TOE

2008-02-18 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Kip Macy wrote: Hi, You might want to check out sys/modules/cxgb/tom/Makefile. ha, so that file is not compiled at all. Thanks for pointing this out. Is there a reason to keep it in cvs then? I guess there is but it's not obvious to me;-) So basically what does that mean

Re: Network device driver KPI/ABI and TOE

2008-02-17 Thread Kip Macy
You might want to check out sys/modules/cxgb/tom/Makefile. -Kip On Feb 17, 2008 1:24 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Robert Watson wrote: > > Hi, > > [cutting a long mail short and randomly replying;-)] > > I came across dev/cxgb/ulp/tom/cxgb_tcp_subr.c vs. ne

Re: Network device driver KPI/ABI and TOE

2008-02-17 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Robert Watson wrote: Hi, [cutting a long mail short and randomly replying;-)] I came across dev/cxgb/ulp/tom/cxgb_tcp_subr.c vs. netinet/tcp_subr.c and I am a bit worried with the way things are done atm. For those functions copied over there are only changes like: -

Re: Network device driver KPI/ABI and TOE

2008-01-10 Thread gnn
At Sun, 6 Jan 2008 13:47:24 + (GMT), rwatson wrote: > > > There's also the opportunity to think about whether it's possible to > harden things in such a ways as to not give up our flexibility to > keep maintaining and improving TCP (and other related subsystems), > yet improving the quality o

Re: Network device driver KPI/ABI and TOE

2008-01-10 Thread Kip Macy
On Jan 10, 2008 2:50 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Sun, 6 Jan 2008 13:47:24 + (GMT), > rwatson wrote: > > > > > > There's also the opportunity to think about whether it's possible to > > harden things in such a ways as to not give up our flexibility to > > keep maintaining and improving

Re: Network device driver KPI/ABI and TOE

2008-01-06 Thread Jack Vogel
On Jan 6, 2008 5:47 AM, Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > My proposal, and this is really a proposal to drive discussion as much as a > proposal for a policy, is that the internal TCP data structures exported via > the TOE interfaces and accessed by TOE device drivers *not* be conside

Re: Network device driver KPI/ABI and TOE

2008-01-06 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Julian Elischer wrote: There's also the opportunity to think about whether it's possible to harden things in such a ways as to not give up our flexibility to keep maintaining and improving TCP (and other related subsystems), yet improving the quality of life for a third pa

Re: Network device driver KPI/ABI and TOE

2008-01-06 Thread Julian Elischer
Robert Watson wrote: There's also the opportunity to think about whether it's possible to harden things in such a ways as to not give up our flexibility to keep maintaining and improving TCP (and other related subsystems), yet improving the quality of life for a third party TOE driver maint

Network device driver KPI/ABI and TOE

2008-01-06 Thread Robert Watson
Dear all, Last month, Kip Macy committed support for TCP offload to the FreeBSD CVS repository for the Chelsio 10gbps device driver. We've had interest from other vendors in supporting TOE on FreeBSD, although it remains unclear as yet which will end up supporting it. This e-mail is about h