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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 13:53:22 +0100
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To: Shai Malin <smalin@...dia.com>, Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@...dia.com>,
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Cc: Boris Pismenny <borisp@...dia.com>,
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Yoray Zack <yorayz@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 01/25] net: Introduce direct data placement tcp
offload
Hi,
On Thu, 2023-01-26 at 09:47 +0000, Shai Malin wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 at 10:52, Paolo Abeni wrote:
>
> > Have you considered avoiding adding the above fields here, and instead
> > pass them as argument for the setup() H/W offload operation?
>
> After researching the implication of such a change, we don’t believe it's right.
> This entire work was designed to be based on the sock structure, and this approach
> will be needed also for the next part of our work (Tx), in which we will use the
> ops and the queue also from the socket.
>
> We defined the ULD_DDP as a generic layer that can support different
> vendors/devices and different ULPs so using only one ops will make it
> more difficult to maintain from our point of view.
I'm fine with the above.
> I will also add that we are addressing review comments for 1.5 years in order
> to fine tune this design, and such a change will open the fundamentals.
I understand my above comment landed quite too late, but I guessed it
was better to ask the question this late then never.
No opposition to the current design on my side.
Thanks,
Paolo
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