From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
Cc: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>,
Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>,
Matthew Dharm <mdharm@momenco.com>,
Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: MIPS 64?
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 12:44:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020519124435.H20670@dea.linux-mips.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CE3E8BA.8080002@mvista.com>; from jsun@mvista.com on Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:13:30AM -0700
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:13:30AM -0700, Jun Sun wrote:
> BTW, I have been under the impression that demand for larger system RAM
> mainly comes from large router/switches to store routing table. Does
> anybody know on such systems whether the routing code runs in kernel or
> user space and whether it requires all the memory space accessible at
> the same time or can live with dynamically managed memory space?
Kernel routing is more for the lower end systems; the highend systems use
hardware assisted routing / switching where software only handles the
boundary cases; such software might either live in user or in kernel space.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-19 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-15 21:34 MIPS 64? Matthew Dharm
2002-05-15 21:48 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-05-15 21:55 ` Kip Walker
2002-05-15 22:08 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-05-15 22:08 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-05-15 22:15 ` Kip Walker
2002-05-15 22:26 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-05-15 22:29 ` Kip Walker
2002-05-19 19:29 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-19 19:25 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-15 21:59 ` Jun Sun
2002-05-15 22:16 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-05-19 19:32 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-16 3:28 ` Dan Malek
2002-05-16 7:15 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-05-16 17:13 ` Jun Sun
2002-05-19 19:44 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2002-05-19 19:41 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-19 19:30 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-20 10:06 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-05-20 15:57 ` Greg Lindahl
2002-05-20 16:05 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-05-21 16:47 ` Florian Lohoff
2002-05-21 17:00 ` Greg Lindahl
2002-05-20 19:05 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-19 19:24 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-19 19:23 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-20 6:05 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-05-20 20:30 ` Ralf Baechle
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