Re: Tcp/ip offload card driver

Joel Jaeggli
2002-05-10T16:07:06Z

One would expect that hyper-transport would make using the cpu more
attractive rather than less since it eleminates many of the shared
resources that are currently bottlenecks in smp machines.

joelja

On Fri, 10 May
2002, Nicholas Harring wrote:

> 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...
> >
> >
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