Subject: Re: RDMA will be reverted

From: Andi Kleen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:25:22 +0200

> They do not bypass netfilter, they do not bypass
> packet scheduling, and yet they provide a hardware assist performance
> improvement for receive.

Not that I'm a TOE advocate, but as long as the adapter leaves SYN/SYN-ACK
to the stack and only turns on RDMA in ESTABLISHED it could at least
do nearly all of netfilter too (as established in the channel discussion) 

-Andi