Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:08:38 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/1] cxgb3i: cxgb3 iSCSI initiator | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:07:51 -0700
> Yes, that's the question -- are stateless offloads (plus CRC32C in the > CPU etc) going to give good enough performance that the whole TCP > offload exercise is pointless?
This is by definition true, over time. And this has stedfastly proven itself, over and over again.
That's why we call stateful offloads a point in time solution. They are constantly being obsoleted by time.
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