Re: bigphysarea support in 2.2.19 and 2.4.0 kernels

["Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>]

On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 10:39:43PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 02:54:50PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> > Having a 1 Gigabyte per second fat pipe that runs over a prallel bus 
> > fabric with a standard PCI card that costs @ $ 500 and can run LVS 
> > and TUX at high speeds would be for the common good, particularly since
> > NT and W2K both have implementations of Dolphin SCI that allow them 
> > to exploit this hardware.  
> 
> I'm just wondering how you are going to do 1 Gbyte per second when you
> still have to get the data through a PCI bus to that card. In theory,
> standard PCI can do 133 Mbyte/s, but only when you're very lucky to be
> able to burst large chunks of data. OK, 64 bit PCI at 66 MHz should
> quadruple the throughput, but that's still not enough for 1 Gbyte/s.

THe fabric supports this data rate.  PCI cards are limited to @ 130MB, 
but multiple nodes all running at the same time could generate this much
traffic.

Jeff

> 
> 
> Erik
> 
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> of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems,
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