From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Werner Almesberger Subject: Re: TOE brain dump Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:37:58 -0300 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030806103758.H5798@almesberger.net> References: <20030802140444.E5798@almesberger.net> <3F2BF5C7.90400@us.ibm.com> <3F2C0C44.6020002@pobox.com> <20030802184901.G5798@almesberger.net> <20030804162433.L5798@almesberger.net> <20030806021304.E5798@almesberger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: "Eric W. Biederman" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from ebiederm@xmission.com on Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:58:56AM -0600 Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Afford, they can do. A lot of the users are researchers and > a lot of people doing the code are researchers. So corralling > them up and getting production quality code can be a challenge, Ah, the joy of herding cats :-) But I guess you just need a sufficiently competent and sufficiently well-funded group that goes ahead and does it. There is usually little point in directly involving everyone who may have an opinion. > to keep your latency down. Do any ethernet switches do cut-through? According to Google, many at least claim to do this. - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina werner@almesberger.net / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/