Venkata, I understand what you were saying now. Thanks SG
--- Venkata Jagana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on > 05/27/2005 10:25:36 > AM: > > > Mike, > > I am not sure I do understand what your were > trying > > to communicate. Let me try and decode this. My > basic > > point was to respond to Venkata's response about > > complete offload without any interaction with the > host > > system. I disagree with that in its totality as I > > think there are dependencies and that needs to be > > specified in a formal manner, i.e. in the specs, > so > > that we do not have multiple proprietary > interafaces > > which change and application users have to change > this > > consumption based on individual implementations. > > And you just brought up the reasons why what I > was > > saying seemed to be justfied. Did I read that > > correctly? > > > > Thanks > > SG > > > > Hello Sukanta, > > Yes, there will be interactions with the host system > for an RNIC > but through an interface something similar to > RNIC-PI. > > The clarification that I was trying to make is that > from an RNIC > perspective, it > doesn't have to expose any ToE interface other than > the fact that adapters > might be providing > multiple services including ToE, RDMA, iSCSI but > that's outside the scope > of an > RNIC interface. > > Thanks > Venkat __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general