Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: TOE brain dump | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 02 Aug 2003 21:57:44 +0100 |
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On Sad, 2003-08-02 at 18:04, Werner Almesberger wrote: > - last but not least, keeping TOE firmware up to date with the > TCP/IP stack in the mainstream kernel will require - for each > such TOE device - a significant and continuous effort over a > long period of time
or even the protocol and protocol refinements..
> - instead of putting a different stack on the TOE, a > general-purpose processor (probably with some enhancements, > and certainly with optimized data paths) is added to the NIC
Like say an opteron in the 2nd socket on the motherboard
> Benefits: > > - putting the CPU next to the NIC keeps data paths short, and > allows for all kinds of optimizations (e.g. a pipelined > memory architecture)
It moves the cost it doesnt make it vanish
If I read you right you are arguing for a second processor running Linux.with its own independant memory bus. AMD make those already its called AMD64. I don't know anyone thinking at that level about partitioning one as an I/O processor.
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