Same could be said the other way around, the thing is Linux can implement it and even take the code, the other way is rather difficult....so much for freedom.
And not sure what you mean with "few" people, the few Playstation 3/4/5 users? Juniper? OpnSense/Pfsense installations? Or the few Truenas/Freenas users?
>Or not something else enough?
The point of the licence is a good point. Is the kind of code drewg123 is referring to regularly copied from BSD to Linux? (i understand it should be possible in this direction?).
Thanks for the video, looks like exactly what I was looking for, I will watch it later.
However, publicizing the ideas and the results is valuable to other operating systems even without the code. If you're building something on Linux (or Windows? or ?) that could benefit from kTLS (including NIC accelerated kTLS), knowing it can work and having a roadmap is great. You would still need to do the plumbing, but you could skip a lot of the design. Being able to look at the code is nice too.
And, if you're willing to try FreeBSD + nginx, you could jump directly to that. If you're deploying something with similar performance characteristics to a CDN box, it's probably a very narrow application, and doesn't need to run on the same stack as the rest of your fleet.
Not to mention all the Minix and NucleusRTOS Users ;)
I'm genuinely curious: why did you implement it in FreeBSD rather than Linux? Isn't that kind of offload something that already exists in Linux? Or does something in the way Linux is implemented/designed that makes it impractical / impossible to implement as efficiently? Or is somehow Linux not secure enough for your use case? Or not something else enough?
I'm asking because I'm always interested to know what are the practical limitations of Linux and also because, while I think it's nice that Linux had some serious competitors, I cannot help being a bit sad that contribution like this will only benefit the few people that use FreeBSD (even if to be fair, it seems that it will benefit all netflix customers at least, which is quite a few people ;) )