[openib-general] Re: RFC: ipath ioctls and their replacements

[Steve Wise]

> For those who need the buzz words to understand what is going
> on the ipath hardware largely does stateless offload for IB while
> the mellanox hardware does whole protocol offload.  Which would
> mean if this was a normal network driver ipath good mellanox bad.
> 

Are you sure about this?  I would think if ipath does IB RC service in
hardware, its no where near stateless offload.  I don't think this is a
fair comparison.

Steve.