RE: [RFC PATCH v3 00/11] NVMeTCP Offload ULP and QEDN Device Driver

Shai Malin
2021-02-18T18:39:00Z

>
> With the goal of enabling a generic infrastructure that allows NVMe/TCP
> offload devices like NICs to seamlessly plug into the NVMe-oF stack, this
> patch series introduces the nvme-tcp-offload ULP host layer, which will be a
> new transport type called "tcp-offload" and will serve as an abstraction layer
> to work with vendor specific nvme-tcp offload drivers.
>
> NVMeTCP offload is a full offload of the NVMeTCP protocol, this includes
> both the TCP level and the NVMeTCP level.
>
> The nvme-tcp-offload transport can co-exist with the existing tcp and other
> transports. The tcp offload was designed so that stack changes are kept to a
> bare minimum: only registering new transports.
> All other APIs, ops etc. are identical to the regular tcp transport.
> Representing the TCP offload as a new transport allows clear and
> manageable differentiation between the connections which should use the
> offload path and those that are not offloaded (even on the same device).
>

Sagi, Christoph, Jens, Keith,
So, as there are no more comments / questions, we understand the direction
is acceptable and will proceed to the full series.