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A DMA xfer that fills the NIC pipe with IDE source. That's not very hard... need a lot of bufferring/FIFO though. May require large modification to the file serving applications? Alan -----Original Message----- From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Ben Greear Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 9:02 PM To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Nivedita Singhvi; Werner Almesberger; netdev@oss.sgi.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: TOE brain dump Jeff Garzik wrote: > So, fix the other end of the pipeline too, otherwise this fast network > stuff is flashly but pointless. If you want to serve up data from disk, > then start creating PCI cards that have both Serial ATA and ethernet > connectors on them :) Cut out the middleman of the host CPU and host I for one would love to see something like this, and not just Serial ATA.. but maybe 8x Serial ATA and RAID :) Ben -- Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com - 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/ - 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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