Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/1] cxgb3i: cxgb3 iSCSI initiator

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Aug 11 2008 - 17:52:30 EST


From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@xxxxxxxxx>
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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