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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: RDMA will be reverted
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:25:22 +0200
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> They do not bypass netfilter, they do not bypass
> packet scheduling, and yet they provide a hardware assist performance
> improvement for receive.

Not that I'm a TOE advocate, but as long as the adapter leaves SYN/SYN-ACK
to the stack and only turns on RDMA in ESTABLISHED it could at least
do nearly all of netfilter too (as established in the channel discussion) 

-Andi