Re: [PATCH 0/8] Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (I/OAT)

[Kumar Gala]

On Mar 3, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Chris Leech wrote:

> This patch series is the first full release of the Intel(R) I/O
> Acceleration Technology (I/OAT) for Linux.  It includes an in  
> kernel API
> for offloading memory copies to hardware, a driver for the I/OAT  
> DMA memcpy
> engine, and changes to the TCP stack to offload copies of received
> networking data to application space.
>
> These changes apply to DaveM's net-2.6.17 tree as of commit
> 2bd84a93d8bb7192ad8c23ef41008502be1cb603 ([IRDA]: TOIM3232 dongle  
> support)
>
> They are available to pull from
> 	git://198.78.49.142/~cleech/linux-2.6 ioat-2.6.17
>
> There are 8 patches in the series:
> 	1) The memcpy offload APIs and class code
> 	2) The Intel I/OAT DMA driver (ioatdma)
> 	3) Core networking code to setup networking as a DMA memcpy client
> 	4) Utility functions for sk_buff to iovec offloaded copy
> 	5) Structure changes needed for TCP receive offload
> 	6) Rename cleanup_rbuf to tcp_cleanup_rbuf
> 	7) Add a sysctl to tune the minimum offloaded I/O size for TCP
> 	8) The main TCP receive offload changes

How does this relate to Dan William's ADMA work?

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=113892936300001&r=1&w=2

- kumar
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