[ALTQ/FreeBSD] Re: Offloading the scheduling to the NIC

[Kenjiro Cho <kjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adrian Penisoara wrote:
>   You were talking in your disertation paper about the possibility of
> offloading the scheduling to the NIC, as with the checksum-offloading
> for some of the today's cards. It seems some folks at 3com were reading
> your mind, they implemented a processor and memory on a card intended to
> support extra applications, like encryption offload or embedded
> firewalling (and, why not, that scheduling offloading we are talking
> about):
> 
>   http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2109150,00.html

The idea isn't new.  For example, Alteon has a developers kit for
Tigon based cards to program its firmware.

> PS: I haven't yet received any reply from any of the FreeBSD core team
> members... something's weird.

I would take it as no objection and no strong support.
It's my impression that the merge should be based on consensus of the
developers, and the core intervenes only when a conflict cannot be
solved among the developers.
So, the next step would be to post a patch for -current and ask for
opinions from other developers.

-Kenjiro
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