Re: TOE, etc. (was Re: [PATCH Round 3 0/2][RFC] Network Event Notifier Mechanism)

2006-06-28 Thread Steve Wise
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 14:29 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:18:25AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > A PCI device that presents itself as a SCSI controller, but under the > > hood is really iSCSI-over-TCP smells like TOE. Running a virtualized > > Linux guest on top of a

Re: TOE, etc. (was Re: [PATCH Round 3 0/2][RFC] Network Event Notifier Mechanism)

2006-06-28 Thread Steve Wise
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 00:18 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Herbert Xu wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:24:25PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> I don't see how that position has changed? > >> > >> http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/TOE > > > > Well I must say that RDMA over TCP smells very much l

Re: TOE, etc. (was Re: [PATCH Round 3 0/2][RFC] Network Event Notifier Mechanism)

2006-06-27 Thread Jeff Garzik
Herbert Xu wrote: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:18:25AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: A PCI device that presents itself as a SCSI controller, but under the hood is really iSCSI-over-TCP smells like TOE. Running a virtualized Linux guest on top of a proprietary stack [which provides networking servic

Re: TOE, etc. (was Re: [PATCH Round 3 0/2][RFC] Network Event Notifier Mechanism)

2006-06-27 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:18:25AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > A PCI device that presents itself as a SCSI controller, but under the > hood is really iSCSI-over-TCP smells like TOE. Running a virtualized > Linux guest on top of a proprietary stack [which provides networking > services to gue

TOE, etc. (was Re: [PATCH Round 3 0/2][RFC] Network Event Notifier Mechanism)

2006-06-27 Thread Jeff Garzik
Herbert Xu wrote: On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:24:25PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: I don't see how that position has changed? http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/TOE Well I must say that RDMA over TCP smells very much like TOE. They've got an ARP table, a routing table, and presumably a TCP stac