Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 10 May 2002 10:51:06 -0500 | | From | Nicholas Harring <> | | Subject | Re: Tcp/ip offload card driver |
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And how about when an SMP system isn't enough? Should I have to re-engineer my network storage architecture when hardware exists that'll increase throughput if a simple device driver gets written? Don't forget that with 64 bit PCI that the limit of the bus has been raised, and with impending technologies like Infiniband and Hypertransport that limit will be raised again. At that point devoting main processor resources to something better handled by specialty hardware really stops making sense, if that specialty hardware is low-cost (oughta be) and effective (still debatable).
Nicholas Harring Hostway Corporation
Jeff Garzik wrote: > Pedro M. Rodrigues wrote: > >> Actually there is. Think iSCSI. Have a look at this article at >> LinuxJournal - http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4896 . >> > > Ug... why bother? Just buy an SMP system at that point... > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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