Re: Tcp/ip offload card driver

Lincoln Dale
2002-05-12T22:26:06Z

IA32 isn't going to get you much more. you need a new architecture.

300mbyte/sec is getting awfully close to real-life PCI limitations on IA32
and real-world memory throughput
sure, the latest chipsets with DDR memory and memory-interleaving and
things like HyperTransport, but they have an awful long way to reach your
"order of magnitude".

i suspect you haven't reaized that "300MiB/sec" below means "300mbyte/sec"
and not "300mbit/s".

At 01:36 PM 12/05/2002 -0400, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:

> Hello John , Think about it ;-) . Maybe an order of magnitude ?
> JimL
>
>On Sun, 12 May 2002, john slee wrote:
> > On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 10:51:06AM -0500, 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
> >
> > jeff merkey has already demonstrated 300MiB/sec and higher speeds on x86
> > linux, with 3ware raid and dolphin sci cards. how much faster do you
> > need to go?
> >
> > j.
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