Re: TOE brain dump

Ingo Oeser
2003-08-04T16:10:35Z

Hi Jeff,

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 03:08:52PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> So, fix the other end of the pipeline too, otherwise this fast network
> stuff is flashly but pointless. If you want to serve up data from disk,
> then start creating PCI cards that have both Serial ATA and ethernet
> connectors on them :) Cut out the middleman of the host CPU and host
> memory bus instead of offloading portions of TCP that do not need to be
> offloaded.

Exactly what I suggested: sys_ioroute()

"Providing generic pipelines and io routing as Linux service"
Msg-ID: <20030718134235.K639@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de>

on linux-kernel and linux-fsdevel

Be my guest.

I know, that you mean doing it in hardware, but you cannot
accelerate sth. which the kernel doesn't do ;-)

Regards

Ingo Oeser