Jamal, great start. I cleaned up the sentence structure a little and then also dropped the 'justification' sentence.
Edited version:
This session will start with description of how a basic Network
Interface Card(NIC) operates and lead into NIC feature evolution.
The discussion will delve into several NIC features starting from
fundamental packet IO, leading to incremental offload of
packet processing from server processors to NIC hardware from
over the last two decades.
The software models described for controlling these NICs center
around Linux kernel APIs that were created to take advantage of
hardware capabilities. When sensible the relationship of a feature
that a NIC handles will be related to specific IETF activity (eg
transport, security, nvo3, etc).
Current abstract looks like:
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This session will start with description of how a basic Network
Interface Card(NIC) operates and lead into NIC feature evolution.
The discussion will delve into several NIC features starting from
fundamental packet IO in the early days, leading to incremental
offloading from the host of whole or parts of packet processing
computation into the NIC hardware from the 1990s to current time.
Justification for the different offloads will be explained.
Linux control and kernel APIs will be used to illustrate the different
functionality. When sensible the relationship of a feature
that a NIC handles will be related to specific IETF activity (eg
transport, security, nvo3, etc)
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Please add/del/modify as needed.
cheers,
jamal
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