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

From: Steve Wise
Date: Thu Jan 19 2006 - 15:46:45 EST



> 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.




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