On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:59 PM, <K.Morgan@iaea.org> wrote:
> On 25 June 2014 22:12, grmocg@gmail.com wrote:
> > Look at this from a hardware engineer's perspective.
> > This bit changes how you must structure hardware buffers in order to
> parse things properly.
>
> This is a good point, and valuable feedback for designing jumbo frames,
> but easily solvable with Willy's proposal or any other variation with a
> fixed length field for the payload length.
>
> > This requires far more complexity for a hardware implementation,
> > and would reduce the chance that we get acceleration in HW for HTTP2.
>
> Exactly what is the http2 hardware acceleration doing? Reassembling frames?
>
Assembling or removing the framing, yes.
In the end the application doesn't care about the framing. It cares about
getting the data in the order it requested as a stream of bytes or
messages, and possibly it cares about padding.
-=R
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