Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:43:17 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] RDMA/CMA: Allocate PS_TCP ports
 from the host TCP port space.
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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:38:07 -0700

> It seems that the NIC would also have to look into a TCP stream (and
> handle out of order segments etc) to find message boundaries for this
> to be equivalent to what an RDMA NIC does.

It would work for data that accumulates in-order, give or take a small
window, just like LRO does.
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