Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 14:16:43 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (I/OAT)
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 17:05:41 -0500

> On Saturday 04 March 2006 16:41, David S. Miller wrote:
> >From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
> >Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 19:46:22 +0100 (MET)
> >
> >> Does this buy the normal standard desktop user anything?
> >
> >Absolutely, it optimizes end-node performance.
> 
> Is this quantifiable?, and does it only apply to Intel?

It applies to whoever has a DMA engine in their computer.

What people need to understand is that this is putting the
optimization in the right place, at the end nodes.  This is about as
old an internet architecting fundamental as you can get, keep the hard
work off the routers and intermediate nodes, and put it on the end
systems.

Intel has done performance numbers, and I'm sure they will post them
at the appropriate time.
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