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Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:33:25PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra (a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl) wrote: > >> http://lwn.net/Articles/144273/>> "Kernel Summit 2005: Convergence of network and storage paths" >> >>We believe that an approach very much like today's patch set is >>necessary for NBD, iSCSI, AoE or the like ever to work reliably. >>We further believe that a properly working version of at least one of >>these subsystems is critical to the viability of Linux as a modern >>storage platform.> > There is another approach for that - do not use slab allocator for > network dataflow at all. It automatically has all you pros amd if > implemented correctly can have a lot of additional usefull and > high-performance features like full zero-copy and total fragmentation > avoidance. Agreed. But probably more intrusive than davem would be happy with at this point. Regards, Daniel - 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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