Article 739YS Linux Dropping SMC TCP ULP Support For Being "Fundamentally Broken"

Linux Dropping SMC TCP ULP Support For Being "Fundamentally Broken"

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Michael Larabel
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Merged four years ago to the Linux kernel networking subsystem's Shared Memory Communications (SMC) code was TCP Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) support for allowing applications to replace TCP with the SMC protocol in-place as a transparent replacement. Except for the next kernel cycle it's set to be reverted after realizing it's "fundamentally broken."..
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