Hmm,
So would main processor still need a copy of the data for re-transmission?
Won't that defeat the purpose?
Alan
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From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Ingo Oeser
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 7:36 AM
To: Jeff Garzik
Cc: Nivedita Singhvi; Werner Almesberger; netdev@oss.sgi.com;
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TOE brain dump
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
Ingo Oeser
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