From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261553AbULIQsa (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:48:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261560AbULIQoi (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:44:38 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:27011 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261567AbULIQn7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:43:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 16:53:40 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Helge Hafting Cc: Pavel Machek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ATA over Ethernet driver for 2.6.9 Message-ID: <20041208155340.GA2292@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: <87acsrqval.fsf@coraid.com> <20041206162153.GH16958@lug-owl.de> <20041207130015.GA983@openzaurus.ucw.cz> <41B6D11D.9040107@hist.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41B6D11D.9040107@hist.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > >Well, at least it has a chance to correctly work in low-memory > >conditions, > >and it might be possible to swap over AoE. > >ARPs are real problem there. > > > Well, how about caching the hw address of the AoE device > somewhere in the data structure describing the block device?s > Then you won't need to ARP for it, and I guess that address isn't > likely to change while the device is in use? That's what I'm saying... There's chance to swap over ATA over ethernet. It would be very hard to do swap over ATA over IP. Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms