Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: The ultimate TOE design | From | jamal <> | Date | 15 Sep 2004 20:57:59 -0400 |
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Jeff, You are only allowed to start a TOE thread only every six months ;->
On a serious note, I think that PCI-express (if it lives upto its expectation) will demolish dreams of a lot of these TOE investments. Our problem is NOT the CPU right now (80% idle processing 450Kpps forwarding). Bus and memory distance/latency are. If intel would get rid of the big conspiracy in the form of chipset division and just integrate the MC like AMD is, we'll be on our our way to kill TOE and a lot of the network processors (like the IXP). Dang, running Linux is more exciting than microcoding things to fit into a 2Kword program store.
I rest my canadiana $.02
cheers, jamal
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