On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 18:27 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:14:36AM -0600, Steve Wise ([email protected]) wrote:
> > Chelsio doesn't implement TCP stack in the driver. Just like Ammasso,
> > it sends messages to the HW to setup connections. It differs from
> > Ammasso in at least 2 ways:
> >
> > 1) Ammasso does the MPA negotiations in FW/HW. Chelsio does it in the
> > RDMA driver. So there is code in the Chelsio driver to handle MPA
> > startup negotiation (the exchange of 2 packets over the TCP connection
> > while its still in streaming more). BTW: This code _could_ be moved
> > into the core IWCM if we find it could be used by other rnic devices
> > (don't know yet).
> >
> > 2) Ammasso implments a 100% deep adapter. It does ARP, routing, IP,
> > TCP, and IWARP protocols all in firmware/hw. It had 2 mac addresses
> > simulating 2 ethernet ports. One exclusively for RDMA connections, and
> > one for host stack traffic. Chelsio implements a shallower adapter that
> > only does TCP in HW. ARP, for instance, is handled by the native stack
> > and the rdma driver uses netevents to maintain arp tables in the HW for
> > use by the offloaded TCP connections.
>
> So breifly saying - there is TCP stack implementation (including ARP and
> routing and other parts) in hardware/firmware/driver which is guaranteed
> to not be visible to host other than in form of high-level dataflow.
> Am I right here?
For Ammasso, yes.
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