Hi Peter
LSO doesn't work as well as MDT, Also the hardware I'm working with
has no UDP LSO capability, does any? so to get accelerated Tx for UDP I
need to use MDT. I hope you now agree that LSO doesn't really subsume
MDT, and we can move forward by pursuing the contract.
Frank
Peter Memishian wrote:
> > Also I have in my driver an Implementation of MDT which works great for
> > x86 and sparc, Solaris 10 and 11 not sure how all the public/private
> > interface work now with everything being open sourced, but I intend to
> > go to production with it as part of my driver for Solaris 10, and would
> > like to make sure that I can continue to use it for Solaris11, do I
> > still need to do a contract or something, so you have on file a
> > customer that is successfully using the MDT interface?
>
> Umm, yikes! Open source has nothing to do with this. The MDT interface
> is not committed, which means it may disappear at any time (even in a
> patch), and if that happens those using your driver will pay the price.
> The only way to safely use MDT is to get a contract (which I doubt we'd
> agree to given that LSO subsumes the need for MDT), or to integrate your
> driver into ON.
>
> --
> meem
>
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