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Hmm, So would main processor still need a copy of the data for re-transmission? Won't that defeat the purpose? Alan -----Original Message----- From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Ingo Oeser Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 7:36 AM To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Nivedita Singhvi; Werner Almesberger; netdev@oss.sgi.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: TOE brain dump Hi Jeff, On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 03:08:52PM -0400, 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 > memory bus instead of offloading portions of TCP that do not need to be > offloaded. Exactly what I suggested: sys_ioroute() "Providing generic pipelines and io routing as Linux service" Msg-ID: <20030718134235.K639@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> on linux-kernel and linux-fsdevel Be my guest. I know, that you mean doing it in hardware, but you cannot accelerate sth. which the kernel doesn't do ;-) Regards Ingo Oeser - 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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