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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Subject: Re: Intel and TOE in the news
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:42:25 -0800
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Leonid Grossman wrote:
> No wait, "paste in" only packets that are already received when a traffic
> interrupt comes...

Ah, so it is ass-u-me-ing that there is little or no packet loss?

How about when the driver is polling instead of taking interrupts?  Will the 
driver "see" the RSO segment-in-progress or will it be hidden?

rick jones