netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 04/13] Connection Manager

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Date:	Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:46:18 -0600
From:	Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>
To:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
Cc:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	openib-general@...nib.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH  v2 04/13] Connection Manager

On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 18:27 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:14:36AM -0600, Steve Wise (swise@...ngridcomputing.com) wrote:
> > Chelsio doesn't implement TCP stack in the driver.  Just like Ammasso,
> > it sends messages to the HW to setup connections.  It differs from
> > Ammasso in at least 2 ways:
> > 
> > 1) Ammasso does the MPA negotiations in FW/HW.  Chelsio does it in the
> > RDMA driver.  So there is code in the Chelsio driver to handle MPA
> > startup negotiation (the exchange of 2 packets over the TCP connection
> > while its still in streaming more).  BTW: This code _could_ be moved
> > into the core IWCM if we find it could be used by other rnic devices
> > (don't know yet).
> > 
> > 2) Ammasso implments a 100% deep adapter.  It does ARP, routing, IP,
> > TCP, and IWARP protocols all in firmware/hw.  It had 2 mac addresses
> > simulating 2 ethernet ports.  One exclusively for RDMA connections, and
> > one for host stack traffic.  Chelsio implements a shallower adapter that
> > only does TCP in HW.  ARP, for instance, is handled by the native stack
> > and the rdma driver uses netevents to maintain arp tables in the HW for
> > use by the offloaded TCP connections.
> 
> So breifly saying - there is TCP stack implementation (including ARP and
> routing and other parts) in hardware/firmware/driver which is guaranteed
> to not be visible to host other than in form of high-level dataflow.
> Am I right here?

For Ammasso, yes.  

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