From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 10 May 2002 11:55:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 10 May 2002 11:55:23 -0400 Received: from fiona.siteprotect.com ([66.113.135.14]:32263 "HELO fiona.siteprotect.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 10 May 2002 11:55:20 -0400 Message-ID: <3CDBEC6A.9020600@hostway.net> Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 10:51:06 -0500 From: Nicholas Harring Reply-To: nharring@hostway.net Organization: Hostway Corporation User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020313 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik Cc: "Pedro M. Rodrigues" , chen_xiangping@emc.com, "David S. Miller" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Tcp/ip offload card driver In-Reply-To: <3CDBFF5B.32550.1364FB2@localhost> <3CDBE7EB.9060605@mandrakesoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org And how about when an SMP system isn't enough? Should I have to re-engineer my network storage architecture when hardware exists that'll increase throughput if a simple device driver gets written? Don't forget that with 64 bit PCI that the limit of the bus has been raised, and with impending technologies like Infiniband and Hypertransport that limit will be raised again. At that point devoting main processor resources to something better handled by specialty hardware really stops making sense, if that specialty hardware is low-cost (oughta be) and effective (still debatable). Nicholas Harring Hostway Corporation Jeff Garzik wrote: > Pedro M. Rodrigues wrote: > >> Actually there is. Think iSCSI. Have a look at this article at >> LinuxJournal - http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4896 . >> > > Ug... why bother? Just buy an SMP system at that point... > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/