RE: Tcp/ip offload card driver

Woodruff, Robert J
2002-05-13T16:17:19Z

>I would like to keep the BOF on practical topics of Infiniband
>implementation in Linux by any means necessary. TOE people
>are welcome to come back when they have something working,
>and when we know how fast the regular IP over Infiniband can go.

I agree that we should stick mainly to discussing InfiniBand
at the LSM BOF and let the TOE discussion happen elsewhere,
although the issues of implementing InfiniBand SDP and
TOE in the kernel are similar as they both want a way to
bypass the S/W TCP stack, but with SDP this could simply be
a new address family, where the TOE guys want a way to dynamically
replace the TCP stack with a TOE driver.

However, perhaps we should start a new email
thread to discuss topics of interest for the LSM BOF
rather than highjack this thread to do so.