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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, shemminger@vyatta.com,
	eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	peterz@infradead.org
Subject: Re: OFT - reserving CPU's for networking
Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 12:53:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100501105304.GA9434@gargoyle.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100430.153038.62351857.davem@davemloft.net>

> And we don't want it to, because the decision mechanisms for steering
> that we using now are starting to get into the stateful territory and
> that's verbotton for NIC offload as far as we're concerned.

Huh? I thought full TCP offload was forbidden?[1] Statefull as in NIC 
(or someone else like netfilter) tracking flows is quite common and very far 
from full offload. AFAIK it doesn't have near all the problems full
offload has.

-Andi

[1] although it seems to leak in more and more through the RDMA backdoor.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-01 10:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 108+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-23  8:12 [PATCH v6] net: batch skb dequeueing from softnet input_pkt_queue Changli Gao
2010-04-23  9:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-23 22:02   ` jamal
2010-04-24 14:10     ` jamal
2010-04-26 14:03       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-26 14:55         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-26 21:06           ` jamal
     [not found]           ` <20100429174056.GA8044@gargoyle.fritz.box>
2010-04-29 17:56             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 18:10               ` OFT - reserving CPU's for networking Stephen Hemminger
2010-04-29 19:19                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-04-29 20:02                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-30 18:15                     ` Brian Bloniarz
2010-04-30 18:57                   ` David Miller
2010-04-30 19:58                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-04-30 21:01                     ` Andi Kleen
2010-04-30 22:30                       ` David Miller
2010-05-01 10:53                         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-05-01 22:03                           ` David Miller
2010-05-01 22:58                             ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-01 23:29                               ` David Miller
2010-05-01 23:44                             ` Ben Hutchings
2010-05-01 20:31                     ` Martin Josefsson
2010-05-01 22:13                       ` David Miller
     [not found]               ` <20100429182347.GA8512@gargoyle.fritz.box>
2010-04-29 19:12                 ` [PATCH v6] net: batch skb dequeueing from softnet input_pkt_queue Eric Dumazet
     [not found]                   ` <20100429214144.GA10663@gargoyle.fritz.box>
2010-04-30  5:25                     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-30 23:38                     ` David Miller
2010-05-01 11:00                       ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02  6:56                         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02  9:20                           ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 10:54                             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 14:13                               ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-02 14:27                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 15:32                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 17:54                                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-02 19:22                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 22:06                                       ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-03  3:50                                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-03  5:17                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-03 10:22                                           ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-03 10:34                                             ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-03 14:09                                               ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-03 14:45                                                 ` Brian Bloniarz
2010-05-04  1:10                                                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-03 15:52                                                 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-04  1:11                                                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-02 21:30                                     ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 15:46                               ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 16:35                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 17:43                                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-02 17:47                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 21:25                                   ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 21:45                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-02 21:54                                       ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-02 22:08                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-03 20:15                                           ` jamal
2010-04-26 21:03         ` jamal
2010-04-23 10:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-27 22:08   ` David Miller
2010-04-27 22:18     ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] bnx2x: Remove two prefetch() Eric Dumazet
2010-04-27 22:19       ` David Miller
2010-04-28 13:14         ` Eilon Greenstein
2010-04-28 15:44           ` Eliezer Tamir
2010-04-28 16:53           ` David Miller
     [not found]           ` <w2ue8f3c3211004280842r9f2589e8qb8fd4b7933cd9756@mail.gmail.com>
2010-04-28 16:55             ` David Miller
2010-04-28 11:33       ` jamal
2010-04-28 12:33         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 12:36           ` jamal
2010-04-28 14:06             ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: speedup udp receive path Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 14:19               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 14:34                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 21:36               ` David Miller
2010-04-28 22:22                 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: ip_queue_rcv_skb() helper Eric Dumazet
2010-04-28 22:39                   ` David Miller
2010-04-28 23:44               ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: speedup udp receive path jamal
2010-04-29  0:00                 ` jamal
2010-04-29  4:09                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 11:35                   ` jamal
2010-04-29 12:12                     ` Changli Gao
2010-04-29 12:45                       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 13:17                         ` jamal
2010-04-29 13:21                           ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 13:37                             ` jamal
2010-04-29 13:49                               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-29 13:56                                 ` jamal
2010-04-29 20:36                                   ` jamal
2010-04-29 21:01                                     ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: sock_def_readable() and friends RCU conversion Eric Dumazet
2010-04-30 13:55                                       ` Brian Bloniarz
2010-04-30 17:26                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-30 23:35                                       ` David Miller
2010-05-01  4:56                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01  7:02                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01  8:03                                           ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 22:00                                             ` David Miller
2010-04-30 19:30                                     ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: speedup udp receive path jamal
2010-04-30 20:40                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01  0:06                                         ` jamal
2010-05-01  5:57                                           ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01  6:14                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 10:24                                               ` Changli Gao
2010-05-01 10:47                                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 11:29                                               ` jamal
2010-05-01 11:23                                             ` jamal
2010-05-01 11:42                                               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 11:56                                                 ` jamal
2010-05-01 13:22                                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-01 13:49                                                     ` jamal
2010-05-03 20:10                                                   ` jamal
2010-04-29 23:07                         ` Changli Gao

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