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Hi, Le Sat, 04 Mar 2006 14:16:43 -0800, David S. Miller a écrit : > From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> > Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 17:05:41 -0500 > >> On Saturday 04 March 2006 16:41, David S. Miller wrote: >> >From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> >> >Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 19:46:22 +0100 (MET) >> > >> >> Does this buy the normal standard desktop user anything? >> > >> >Absolutely, it optimizes end-node performance. >> >> Is this quantifiable?, and does it only apply to Intel? > > It applies to whoever has a DMA engine in their computer. > But we need a special driver ? The IOAT driver from intel seems to expect a pci device (0x8086 0x1a38) and the common x86 computer have their dma in lpc/isa bridge. Matthieu - 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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