From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: rick.jones2@hp.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, sclark46@earthlink.net,
brutus@google.com, edumazet@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net-tcp: TCP/IP stack bypass for loopback connections
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:41:03 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120920.154103.310589245720062013.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <505B5154.3020002@hp.com>
From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:24:36 -0700
> On 09/20/2012 04:51 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 07:28 -0400, Stephen Clark wrote:
>>>
>>> Does this mean traffic on the loopback interface will not traverse
>>> netfilter?
>>>
>>
>> Yes this was already mentioned.
>>
>> Only the SYN / SYNACK messages will
>>
>> All data will bypass IP stack, qdisc (if any), loopback driver, and
>> netfilter.
>
> Does that then lift the tent flap for TOE? As I recall, TOE's
> bypassing of all those things is one of the reasons used to reject
> TOE.
Wrong. This bypassing is completely in software, and completely
controlled by us.
Which is completely opposite to TOE.
Don't spread fud like this, even on a whim.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-20 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-17 18:58 [PATCH v3] net-tcp: TCP/IP stack bypass for loopback connections Bruce "Brutus" Curtis
2012-09-17 20:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-17 23:08 ` Bruce Curtis
2012-09-19 20:34 ` David Miller
2012-09-19 21:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-19 21:17 ` David Miller
2012-09-19 21:19 ` Bruce Curtis
2012-09-20 11:28 ` Stephen Clark
2012-09-20 11:51 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-20 16:21 ` Bill Fink
2012-09-20 17:24 ` Rick Jones
2012-09-20 19:41 ` David Miller [this message]
2012-09-20 19:30 ` David Miller
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