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 11:12:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 10 May 2002 11:12:39 -0400 Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com ([192.108.102.143]:18639 "EHLO smtp-send.myrealbox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 10 May 2002 11:12:37 -0400 From: "Pedro M. Rodrigues" To: chen_xiangping@emc.com, "David S. Miller" Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 17:11:55 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Tcp/ip offload card driver CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3CDBFF5B.32550.1364FB2@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20020510.074343.35536226.davem@redhat.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.01) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Actually there is. Think iSCSI. Have a look at this article at LinuxJournal - http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4896 . /Pedro On 10 May 2002 at 7:43, David S. Miller wrote: > From: "chen, xiangping" > Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 10:48:23 -0400 > > Is there any TCP offload (TOE) card driver available on Linux? > > Why do you want it? There is no proven performance benefit. > > PCI bandwidth is the limiting factor for networking performance. > - > 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/ >