Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030455AbVKWWpk (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:45:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030453AbVKWWpk (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:45:40 -0500 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:29830 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030452AbVKWWpj (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:45:39 -0500 Message-ID: <4384F110.4060908@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:45:36 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Grover CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, john.ronciak@intel.com, christopher.leech@intel.com Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/3] ioat: DMA engine support References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.1 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "srv2.dvmed.net", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: Andrew Grover wrote: > As presented in our talk at this year's OLS, the Bensley platform, which > will be out in early 2006, will have an asyncronous DMA engine. It can be > used to offload copies from the CPU, such as the kernel copies of received > packets into the user buffer. [...] Content analysis details: (0.1 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address [69.134.188.146 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 643 Lines: 18 Andrew Grover wrote: > As presented in our talk at this year's OLS, the Bensley platform, which > will be out in early 2006, will have an asyncronous DMA engine. It can be > used to offload copies from the CPU, such as the kernel copies of received > packets into the user buffer. More than a one-paragraph description would be nice... URLs to OLS and IDF presentations, other info? Jeff - 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/