Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757572AbYHNCJ0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:09:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757410AbYHNCJG (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:09:06 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:44309 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757316AbYHNCJE (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:09:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:09:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080813.190905.31828583.davem@davemloft.net> To: tom@opengridcomputing.com Cc: rdreier@cisco.com, rick.jones2@hp.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, swise@opengridcomputing.com, divy@chelsio.com, kxie@chelsio.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, open-iscsi@googlegroups.com, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu, daisyc@us.ibm.com, wenxiong@us.ibm.com, bhua@us.ibm.com, dm@chelsio.com, leedom@chelsio.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/1] cxgb3i: cxgb3 iSCSI initiator From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <48A389DB.9050002@opengridcomputing.com> References: <20080813.161237.10205799.davem@davemloft.net> <48A389DB.9050002@opengridcomputing.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / 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 List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 762 Lines: 18 From: Tom Tucker Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:26:51 -0500 > Is there any chance your could discuss exactly how a stateless adapter > can determine if a network segment > is in-order, next expected, minus productive ack, paws compliant, etc... > without TCP state? If you're getting packets out of order, data placement optimizations are the least of your concerns. In fact this is exactly where we want all of the advanced loss handling algorithms of the Linux TCP stack to get engaged. -- 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/