Re: #540: "jumbo" frames

On 2014�06�25, at 5:35 PM, <K.Morgan@iaea.org> <K.Morgan@iaea.org> wrote:

> Bad idea IMO.  That would really paint HTTP/2 into a corner.  With no reserved bits left, there would never be a chance to go above 64K frames.  i.e. you could never " back-port bigger frames onto an existing protocol"

IPv6 packets only go up to 64K, so no network processor is going to get away with coarser granularity for the foreseeable future.

I�ve not been following this (my implementation is on hold as it seems HTTP/2 is going back to the drawing board) but any �jumbo frames� scheme should be amenable to hardware implementation. Needing a branchy CPU program for decoding would be painting into a corner.