Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list netdev); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:42:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from palrel13.hp.com (palrel13.hp.com [156.153.255.238]) by oss.sgi.com (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j1MLgQ9W032696 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:42:26 -0800 Received: from tardy.cup.hp.com (tardy.cup.hp.com [15.244.44.58]) by palrel13.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3746E1C11CA6 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:42:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from hp.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tardy.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_28810)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id NAA27911 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:42:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <421BA741.4050201@hp.com> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:42:25 -0800 From: Rick Jones User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; HP-UX 9000/785; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040304 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Intel and TOE in the news References: <200502222131.j1MLVHDD029755@guinness.s2io.com> In-Reply-To: <200502222131.j1MLVHDD029755@guinness.s2io.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.81, clamav-milter version 0.81b on oss.sgi.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-archive-position: 1953 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: rick.jones2@hp.com Precedence: bulk X-list: netdev Content-Length: 341 Lines: 10 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