netdev - Re: [PATCH v3] net-tcp: TCP/IP stack bypass for loopback connections

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Message-Id: <20120920.154103.310589245720062013.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:41:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rick.jones2@...com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, sclark46@...thlink.net, brutus@...gle.com,
	edumazet@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net-tcp: TCP/IP stack bypass for loopback
 connections

From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:24:36 -0700

> On 09/20/2012 04:51 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 07:28 -0400, Stephen Clark wrote:
>>>
>>> Does this mean traffic on the loopback interface will not traverse
>>> netfilter?
>>>
>>
>> Yes this was already mentioned.
>>
>> Only the SYN / SYNACK messages will
>>
>> All data will bypass IP stack, qdisc (if any), loopback driver, and
>> netfilter.
> 
> Does that then lift the tent flap for TOE?  As I recall, TOE's
> bypassing of all those things is one of the reasons used to reject
> TOE.

Wrong.  This bypassing is completely in software, and completely
controlled by us.

Which is completely opposite to TOE.

Don't spread fud like this, even on a whim.
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