What would you rate the relative complexity of working with the NIC offloading vs the more traditional optimizations in the rest of the deck? Have you compared other NIC vendors before or has Mellanox been the go to that's always done what you've needed?
I wish the video was online... We tried another vendor's NIC (don't want to name and shame). That NIC did kTLS offload before Mellanox. However, they could not retain TLS crypto state in the middle of a record. That meant we had to coerce TCP into trying really hard to send at TLS record boundaries. Doing this caused really poor QoE metrics (increase rebuffers, etc), and we were unable to move forward with them.
What would you rate the relative complexity of working with the NIC offloading vs the more traditional optimizations in the rest of the deck? Have you compared other NIC vendors before or has Mellanox been the go to that's always done what you've needed?