Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:52:14 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/1] cxgb3i: cxgb3 iSCSI initiator
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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:39:47 -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.
> 
> By the definition of what?

By definition of time always advancing forward, and cpus always
getting faster, and memory (albeit more slowly) increasing in
speed too,

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