I don't see how CONTINUATION makes a hardware implementation more difficult, though? It doesn't at all change the buffer management. -=R On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > In message <CAP+FsNcwTBLjn+CV0gnrpG_87U= > xetOJsqoyFF5Ze+w_Ucwfpg@mail.gmail.com> > , Roberto Peon writes: > > >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 requires far more complexity for a hardware implementation, and would > >reduce the chance that we get acceleration in HW for HTTP2. > > But the elimination of CONTINUATION would more than offset that minor > bit of complexity. > > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. >
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