linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2]: Remote softirq invocation infrastructure.

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Date:	Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:36:24 +0300 (EEST)
From:	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, dwalker@...sta.com,
	arjan@...radead.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, jens.axboe@...cle.com,
	steffen.klassert@...unet.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2]: Remote softirq invocation infrastructure.

On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, David Miller wrote:

> From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:05:45 +0900
> 
> > Of course, we need to balance any effort spent on this with the
> > likelihood that hardware improvements will soon make this obsolete
> > (for IPsec anyway).
> 
> True, but old hardware will always exist.

...Also, producing buggy hardware will not suddently just vanish either 
("can you please turn of ipsec offloading and see if you can still
reproduce" :-))...

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