Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264923AbTFQUSA (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2003 16:18:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264926AbTFQUSA (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2003 16:18:00 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:24025 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264923AbTFQUR7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2003 16:17:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:27:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20030617.132720.22019247.davem@redhat.com> To: janiceg@us.ibm.com Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, shemminger@osdl.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, girouard@us.ibm.com, stekloff@us.ibm.com, lkessler@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, niv@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: patch for common networking error messages From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <3EEF78F4.2070604@us.ibm.com> References: <3EEF7030.6030303@us.ibm.com> <20030617.125040.58438649.davem@redhat.com> <3EEF78F4.2070604@us.ibm.com> X-FalunGong: Information control. X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 630 Lines: 20 From: Janice M Girouard Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:24:20 -0500 Perhaps if RDMA is capabilities are added to Linux, then things might be different. So.. when do you think RDMA will show up on Linx? RDMA is total junk. On RX, clever RX buffer management is what we need. On TX zerocopy + TSO is more than sufficient and we have that today. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/