Re: [v6ops] Trajectory for "transition" mechanisms in our working group

Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> Thu, 18 October 2018 16:31 UTC

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On Thu, 18 Oct 2018, Lee Howard wrote:

> Your argument is that somebody might implement it wrong?

Nope.

> Doesn't that apply to literally everything?

Yes.

> If a process black-holes your packets, you should turn it off. Does that 
> really mean you have to turn off acceleration?

That's not how it works. This is not a "process". This is HW built into 
the SoC that conflates lots of things, including NIC, L2 switch, 
processor, and heaps of other things.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se