From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 23:18:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 23:18:34 -0500 Received: from web121.mail.yahoo.com ([205.180.60.129]:8713 "HELO web121.yahoomail.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 23:18:17 -0500 Message-ID: <20010110041815.23159.qmail@web121.yahoomail.com> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 20:18:15 -0800 (PST) From: Cacophonix Subject: Re: storage over IP (was Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, To: Alan Cox , dean gaudet Cc: Ingo Molnar , Rik van Riel , "David S. Miller" , hch@caldera.de, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I haven't tracked the IP storage group too closely, but was at the San Diego IETF where there were some interesting debates about this issue. There is a write-up at http://ips.pdl.cs.cmu.edu/mail/msg02598.html Now I'm not sure if I agree with some of the assumptions. And I share your concern about using multiple tcp streams. Thoughts? cheers, karthik --- Alan Cox wrote: > > > > show that both use TCP/IP. TCP/IP has variable length headers (or am i on > > crack?), which totally complicates the receive path. > > TCP has variable length headers. It also prevents you re-ordering commands > in the stream which would be beneficial. I've not checked if the draft uses > multiple TCP streams but then you have scaling questions. > > Alan > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/