From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261173AbULHJzB (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2004 04:55:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261174AbULHJzB (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2004 04:55:01 -0500 Received: from hermine.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:56593 "HELO hermine.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261173AbULHJyy (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2004 04:54:54 -0500 Message-ID: <41B6D11D.9040107@hist.no> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 11:02:05 +0100 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041124) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ATA over Ethernet driver for 2.6.9 References: <87acsrqval.fsf@coraid.com> <20041206162153.GH16958@lug-owl.de> <20041207130015.GA983@openzaurus.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20041207130015.GA983@openzaurus.ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pavel Machek wrote: > >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. > Pavel > > Well, how about caching the hw address of the AoE device somewhere in the data structure describing the block device? 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? Helge Hafting