structure agnostic transport and a start of a frame
Folks,
Kevin brought up an interesting point a while back. If we want a truly structure agnostic transport mode be supported that would imply just a stream of bits. For example, in a case of CPRI we would not even touch 8B/10B or 64B/66B coding to preserve e.g. K-characters etc. I am fine with this (with some pain). However, it could be beneficial to indicate the start of a frame in the RoE header (1 bit flag). The assumption I have is that all data streams to be carried over RoE in structure agnostic mode still have some kind of framing. As an example we could indicate the start of each hyper frame in a case of CPRI.
The same flag would also serve structure aware modes & native RoE flows. Just to indicate when some packet is a start of a radio frame or other framing..
This is a small optimization that may or may not be worth it.. Comments/thoughts?
- Jouni
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Jouni Korhonen, CTO Office, Networking, Broadcom Corporation
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