Re: [RFC 0/0] Introducing a generic socket offload framework

[jamal]

On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 07:58 -0700, San Mehat wrote:

> Can you explain a good use-case for SOCK_RAW in this type of
> environment? We were noodling it around locally and couldn't come up
> with one that we needed to support.

One that comes to mind is the case of Samir's app: youd need to handle
some of the apps that ride on top of IP typically using SOCK_RAW
eg ping, OSPF essentially anything on IP that doesnt have transport
built into kernel etc; 

> > Q: If you want this to be transparent to the apps, who/what is doing
> > the tagging of SOCK_HWASSIST? clearly not the app if you dont want to
> > change it.
> 
> The decision of whether to tag a socket or not is made by the 'hardware'

As in some config interface? 

cheers,
jamal

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