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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: patch for common networking error messages
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:27:20 -0700 (PDT)
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   From: Janice M Girouard <janiceg@us.ibm.com>
   Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:24:20 -0500
   
   Perhaps if RDMA is  capabilities are added to Linux, then things
   might be different.
   
   So.. when do you think RDMA will show up on Linx?

RDMA is total junk.

On RX, clever RX buffer management is what we need.

On TX zerocopy + TSO is more than sufficient and we have
that today.