From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/15] net/smc: Shared Memory Communications - RDMA Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 15:17:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20160606.151740.2048296086973073274.davem@davemloft.net> References: <201606031527.u53FQ9dR045418@mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, utz.bacher@de.ibm.com To: ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:47365 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751574AbcFFWRm (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2016 18:17:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <201606031527.u53FQ9dR045418@mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ursula Braun Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 17:26:59 +0200 > It is transparent to most existing TCP connection load balancers > that are commonly used in the enterprise data center environment for > multi-tier application workloads. I think a better word would be "bypass". And likewise the data stream bypasses our packet scheduler, netfilter, classifiers, and just about every other interesting facility in the kernel.