Re: Tcp/ip offload card driver

Nicholas Harring
2002-05-10T16:10:53Z

Obviously some form of driver is necessary to access the device, whether
or not we're pushing fully formed IP packets or raw payload. Or is that
a userland problem and I'm just not understanding the flow from
userspace through the kernel and to the driver properly?

Cheers,
Nicholas Harring

David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Nicholas Harring <nharring@hostway.net>
> Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 10:51:06 -0500
>
> And how about when an SMP system isn't enough?
>
> Demonstrate this.
>
> Putting the whole implementation on the cards firmware is feasible,
> you don't need SMP. It's totally doable and Linux needs to see
> none of the details.
>
> Franks a lot,
> David S. Miller
> davem@redhat.com
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