Re: Concensus Call on Urgent Pointer.

[Clive Philbrick <clive@alacritech.com>]

We too are prepared to support an URGENT mechanism that includes negotiation
and that is "making it an option for both sides".

It is worth pointing out that since the whole thrust of the mechanism is solely to
attempt to deal with dropped frames in a efficient manner in a TCP offload
environment, there are already working alternatives out there that effectively deal
with dropped frames in these environments. They do not need the URGENT mechanism,
nor do they have huge SRAM resources. That said, it is conceivable that an URGENT
mechanism could help, although it would not be considered low hanging fruit in terms
of performance gains expected.

Clive Philbrick
Alacritech