Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270497AbTHCGXK (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 02:23:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270986AbTHCGXK (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 02:23:10 -0400 Received: from smtp013.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.173.57]:30219 "HELO smtp013.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S270497AbTHCGXI (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 02:23:08 -0400 From: "Alan Shih" To: "Ben Greear" , "Jeff Garzik" Cc: "Nivedita Singhvi" , "Werner Almesberger" , , Subject: RE: TOE brain dump Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 23:22:52 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2727.1300 In-Reply-To: <3F2C891B.7080004@candelatech.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1513 Lines: 45 A DMA xfer that fills the NIC pipe with IDE source. That's not very hard... need a lot of bufferring/FIFO though. May require large modification to the file serving applications? Alan -----Original Message----- From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Ben Greear Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 9:02 PM To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Nivedita Singhvi; Werner Almesberger; netdev@oss.sgi.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: TOE brain dump 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 I for one would love to see something like this, and not just Serial ATA.. but maybe 8x Serial ATA and RAID :) Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/