Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267766AbUIOXJU (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:09:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267725AbUIOXIr (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:08:47 -0400 Received: from hibernia.jakma.org ([212.17.55.49]:5264 "EHLO hibernia.jakma.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267767AbUIOXF5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:05:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:05:44 +0100 (IST) From: Paul Jakma X-X-Sender: paul@fogarty.jakma.org To: Alan Cox cc: Netdev , leonid.grossman@s2io.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: The ultimate TOE design In-Reply-To: <1095275660.20569.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <4148991B.9050200@pobox.com> <1095275660.20569.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-NSA: arafat al aqsar jihad musharef jet-A1 avgas ammonium qran inshallah allah al-akbar martyr iraq saddam hammas hisballah rabin ayatollah korea vietnam revolt mustard gas british airways washington MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 812 Lines: 24 On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Alan Cox wrote: > Last time I checked 2Ghz accelerators for intel and AMD were quite > cheap and also had the advantage they ran user mode code when idle > from network processing. Indeed. Unfortunately though, my vague understanding is, the interesting bits on the IXP, the microengines, are integrated with the XScale ASIC. I agree it's silly to stick a general purpose CPU in there, but you get it for "free" anyway. regards, -- Paul Jakma paul@clubi.ie paul@jakma.org Key ID: 64A2FF6A Fortune: War is an equal opportunity destroyer. - 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/