Should this be implemented in endpoints at all?
Should this be implemented in endpoints at all?
Posted Dec 31, 2024 9:26 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)In reply to: Should this be implemented in endpoints at all? by buck
Parent article: The Homa network protocol
> While I think a dumb network and the end-to-end principle is usually for the best, it doesn't sound like anybody is really looking to add any value here but speed, which seems like a job for hardware, since the field is already full of hardware competitors.
This is a see-saw. Look at pretty much anything, you'll see it implemented in the CPU because hardware can't keep up, then dedicated hardware takes over because it's faster, then the CPU takes over because the hardware has ossified ...
This is just another iteration of the same loop...
Cheers,
Wol