Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261283AbVDQISs (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 04:18:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261284AbVDQISs (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 04:18:48 -0400 Received: from pD9F86D3F.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([217.248.109.63]:52355 "EHLO susi.maya.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261283AbVDQISq (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 04:18:46 -0400 From: Andreas Hartmann X-Newsgroups: linux.kernel Subject: More performance for the TCP stack by using additional hardware chip on NIC Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 10:17:49 +0200 Organization: privat Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050405 X-Accept-Language: de, en-us, en X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 901 Lines: 22 Hello! Alacritech developed a new chip for NIC's (http://www.alacritech.com/html/tech_review.html), which makes it possible to take away the TCP stack from the host CPU. Therefore, the host CPU has more performance for the applications according Alacritech. This sounds interesting. Unfortunately, there are two patents belonging to this solution. Now, I'm wondering if it is possible to implement any support for these chips in the Linux kernel. If this hardware solution does have really the advantages described by Alacritech, it would be a pitty, if Linux couldn't use this hardware. What do you think about that? Kind regards, Andreas Hartmann - 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/