Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270335AbTHCU6X (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 16:58:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270648AbTHCU6X (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 16:58:23 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust4.swan.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.4]:43929 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270335AbTHCU4X (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 16:56:23 -0400 Subject: Re: TOE brain dump From: Alan Cox To: Ben Greear Cc: Jeff Garzik , Nivedita Singhvi , Werner Almesberger , netdev@oss.sgi.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <3F2C891B.7080004@candelatech.com> References: <20030802140444.E5798@almesberger.net> <3F2BF5C7.90400@us.ibm.com> <3F2C0C44.6020002@pobox.com> <3F2C891B.7080004@candelatech.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1059943933.31901.3.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 03 Aug 2003 21:52:13 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 861 Lines: 19 On Sul, 2003-08-03 at 05:01, Ben Greear wrote: > 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 :) There is a protocol floating around for ATA over ethernet, no TCP layer or nasty latency eating complexities in the middle - 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/