Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:20:53 -0700 | From | Tony Lee <> | Subject | Re: The ultimate TOE design |
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On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:36:14 -0700 (PDT), David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com> wrote: > actually the sector based access that is made to modern drives is a very > primitive filesystem. if you go back to the days of the MFM and RLL drives > you had the computer sending the raw bitstreams to the drives, but with > SCSI and IDE this stopped and you instead a higher level logical block to > the drive and it deals with the details of getting it to and from the > platter. > > David Lang >
Maybe next evolutionary step is to put VFS layer directory on top of RDMA -> PCI Express/Latest serial IO, etc. Similar to access file thru NFS/SMB just on a faster standardize (RDMA) transport.
On the networking front, instead of TOE, it should be services offload, similar to web load balancer. Offload service base on src/dest addr port proto (tcp/udp). NSO (Network service offload.) - kind of like Apache's reverse proxy with URL rewrite, but maybe for other applications.
Question for Leonid of S2io.com: Your company has an interesting card. I think it must have some kind of embedded CPU. Care to tell us what kind of CPU are they?
-- -Tony Having a lot of fun with Xilinx Virtex Pro II reconfigurable HW + ppc + Linux - 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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