From: Nicholas Harring <nharring@hostway.net>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Tcp/ip offload card driver
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 11:04:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CDBEF8B.3010901@hostway.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CDBFF5B.32550.1364FB2@localhost> <3CDBE7EB.9060605@mandrakesoft.com> <3CDBEC6A.9020600@hostway.net> <20020510.084948.99859388.davem@redhat.com>
Obviously some form of driver is necessary to access the device, whether
or not we're pushing fully formed IP packets or raw payload. Or is that
a userland problem and I'm just not understanding the flow from
userspace through the kernel and to the driver properly?
Cheers,
Nicholas Harring
David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Nicholas Harring <nharring@hostway.net>
> Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 10:51:06 -0500
>
> And how about when an SMP system isn't enough?
>
> Demonstrate this.
>
> Putting the whole implementation on the cards firmware is feasible,
> you don't need SMP. It's totally doable and Linux needs to see
> none of the details.
>
> Franks a lot,
> David S. Miller
> davem@redhat.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-10 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-10 14:48 Tcp/ip offload card driver chen, xiangping
2002-05-10 14:43 ` David S. Miller
2002-05-10 15:11 ` Pedro M. Rodrigues
2002-05-10 15:04 ` David S. Miller
2002-05-10 16:59 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-05-11 22:23 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-05-10 15:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-05-10 15:51 ` Nicholas Harring
2002-05-10 15:49 ` David S. Miller
2002-05-10 16:04 ` Nicholas Harring [this message]
2002-05-10 16:09 ` Joel Jaeggli
2002-05-12 0:55 ` john slee
2002-05-12 17:36 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-05-10 18:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-05-10 16:02 ` Mark Hahn
2002-05-10 15:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-05-10 15:07 ` David S. Miller
2002-05-11 1:53 ` Lincoln Dale
2002-05-12 2:56 ` David S. Miller
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2002-05-10 17:36 Nivedita Singhvi
[not found] <mailman.1021046154.26338.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-05-10 17:55 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-05-10 17:46 ` David S. Miller
2002-05-10 18:39 Nivedita Singhvi
2002-05-10 21:43 Woodruff, Robert J
[not found] <mailman.1021067221.3300.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-05-12 2:46 ` Pete Zaitcev
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205121335050.14675-100000@filesrv1.baby-dra gons.com>
2002-05-12 22:26 ` Lincoln Dale
2002-05-13 16:17 Woodruff, Robert J
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