Messages in this thread |  | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: FYI: I2O Architecture (fwd) | Date | 20 Nov 1996 16:44:05 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961119200905.74A-100000@nextd.demon.co.uk> By author: Mark Hemment <markhe@nextd.demon.co.uk> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > With the processing power that will be on some of the I2O cards, we > might find network protocol stacks (TCP?), etc, being off-loaded > from the central CPUs. Would this be a step backwards or forwards > from SMP? >
Backwards. This is a classic fallacy, described in detail in most computer architecture courses. Basically, the problem is that main CPU's tend to improve faster than auxilliary I/O processors, and that communication schemes between the two tend to be too limiting for future growth.
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