Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262093AbTHFNiJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:38:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262116AbTHFNiJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:38:09 -0400 Received: from almesberger.net ([63.105.73.239]:29709 "EHLO host.almesberger.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262093AbTHFNiG (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:38:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:37:58 -0300 From: Werner Almesberger To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: TOE brain dump Message-ID: <20030806103758.H5798@almesberger.net> References: <20030802140444.E5798@almesberger.net> <3F2BF5C7.90400@us.ibm.com> <3F2C0C44.6020002@pobox.com> <20030802184901.G5798@almesberger.net> <20030804162433.L5798@almesberger.net> <20030806021304.E5798@almesberger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from ebiederm@xmission.com on Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:58:56AM -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1065 Lines: 25 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Afford, they can do. A lot of the users are researchers and > a lot of people doing the code are researchers. So corralling > them up and getting production quality code can be a challenge, Ah, the joy of herding cats :-) But I guess you just need a sufficiently competent and sufficiently well-funded group that goes ahead and does it. There is usually little point in directly involving everyone who may have an opinion. > to keep your latency down. Do any ethernet switches do cut-through? According to Google, many at least claim to do this. - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina werner@almesberger.net / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/ - 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/