[openib-general] [PATCH][iWARP] Added provider CM verbsandquery provider methods

[Caitlin Bestler]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openib-general-bounces at openib.org 
> [mailto:openib-general-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Tom Tucker
> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 9:47 AM
> To: Roland Dreier; Asgeir Eiriksson
> Cc: openib-general at openib.org
> Subject: RE: [openib-general] [PATCH][iWARP] Added provider 
> CM verbsandquery provider methods
> 
> 
> >From my reading of the thread, there is resistence to
> TOE in general. The patch is just the messenger. The 
> principle opponent is Dave Miller who strongly believes that 
> stateless acceleration such as TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) 
> suffices for all needs. Ironically, this requires a much 
> higher level of stack integration than TOE does.
> 
> TOE for the purposes of RDMA may have more legs within the 
> community, however, this has yet to be tested.
> 

And even once we have concensus to do it, we then need to
reach concensus on issues such as connect-on-chip-with-host-approval
and/or connect-on-host-then-transfer to work through. For example,
I think the host stack should support either, leaving the tradeoffs
between NIC and host processing to be resolved in the marketplace.