Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272579AbTHEIQN (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 04:16:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272587AbTHEIQM (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 04:16:12 -0400 Received: from tom.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de ([134.109.132.38]:27327 "EHLO tom.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272579AbTHEIQJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 04:16:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 10:15:25 +0200 From: Ingo Oeser To: Alan Shih Cc: Jeff Garzik , Nivedita Singhvi , Werner Almesberger , netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: TOE brain dump Message-ID: <20030805101525.P670@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> References: <20030804163606.Q639@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@storlinksemi.com on Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:19:21AM -0700 X-Spam-Score: -4.5 (----) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *19jwzG-00034j-00*RgAXBNAHfIU* Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 644 Lines: 19 On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:19:21AM -0700, Alan Shih wrote: > So would main processor still need a copy of the data for re-transmission? > Won't that defeat the purpose? No, since I didn't state that a retransmission is done along the pipe, because you cannot go back in a pipeline. A retransmission can be done at the end of the pipe, where this can also be done in hardware. Regards Ingo Oeser - 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/