Access to the Internic Blocked

Wed Sep 4 19:53:19 UTC 1996

In message <xoienkiiahn.fsf at chops.icp.net>, Sean Doran writes:
> Curtis Villamizar <curtis at ans.net> writes:
> 
> > There are routers that handle {LS}SRR at near full speed.  Stuffing it
> > on the broken path in is a bug.  Fast-path/broken-path
> > is just a bug.
> 
> I'm not sure I agree, particularly in the case where
> "broken-path" involves delegating work to another
> processor.

Whenever you discover that in your design you risk sending
5,000-10,000 little delegations of work per second from one processor
to another and taking the entire box down in the process it is time to
seriously consider whether you've made the right design decisions.

That's all.

Curtis