Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750828AbVLBRHV (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Dec 2005 12:07:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750717AbVLBRHV (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Dec 2005 12:07:21 -0500 Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:9177 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750825AbVLBRHT (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Dec 2005 12:07:19 -0500 Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 11:06:38 -0600 From: Jon Mason To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Andrew Grover , 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 Message-ID: <20051202170638.GA1443@us.ibm.com> Mail-Followup-To: Jeff Garzik , Andrew Grover , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, john.ronciak@intel.com, christopher.leech@intel.com References: <4384F110.4060908@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4384F110.4060908@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 919 Lines: 24 On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 05:45:36PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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 > FYI, OLS paper can be found at http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2005/linuxsymposium_procv1.pdf Starting at page 281. Other info can be found at http://www.intel.com/technology/ioacceleration/index.htm - 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/