Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Aug 2003 16:36:06 +0200 | From | Ingo Oeser <> | Subject | Re: TOE brain dump |
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Hi Jeff,
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 03:08:52PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > So, fix the other end of the pipeline too, otherwise this fast network > stuff is flashly but pointless. If you want to serve up data from disk, > then start creating PCI cards that have both Serial ATA and ethernet > connectors on them :) Cut out the middleman of the host CPU and host > memory bus instead of offloading portions of TCP that do not need to be > offloaded.
Exactly what I suggested: sys_ioroute()
"Providing generic pipelines and io routing as Linux service" Msg-ID: <20030718134235.K639@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de>
on linux-kernel and linux-fsdevel
Be my guest.
I know, that you mean doing it in hardware, but you cannot accelerate sth. which the kernel doesn't do ;-)
Regards
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