Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272012AbTHDRVs (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:21:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272008AbTHDRVs (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:21:48 -0400 Received: from smtp016.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.174.113]:40978 "HELO smtp016.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S272044AbTHDRTk (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:19:40 -0400 From: "Alan Shih" To: "Ingo Oeser" , "Jeff Garzik" Cc: "Nivedita Singhvi" , "Werner Almesberger" , , Subject: RE: TOE brain dump Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:19:21 -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) In-Reply-To: <20030804163606.Q639@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2727.1300 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1710 Lines: 53 Hmm, So would main processor still need a copy of the data for re-transmission? Won't that defeat the purpose? Alan -----Original Message----- 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 - 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/