Re: [RFC 0/0] Introducing a generic socket offload framework

On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 07:58 -0700, San Mehat wrote:

Can you explain a good use-case for SOCK_RAW in this type of
environment? We were noodling it around locally and couldn't come up
with one that we needed to support.

One that comes to mind is the case of Samir's app: youd need to handle
some of the apps that ride on top of IP typically using SOCK_RAW
eg ping, OSPF essentially anything on IP that doesnt have transport
built into kernel etc; 

quoted

Q: If you want this to be transparent to the apps, who/what is doing
the tagging of SOCK_HWASSIST? clearly not the app if you dont want to
change it.

The decision of whether to tag a socket or not is made by the 'hardware'

As in some config interface? 

cheers,
jamal