From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>,
roland@topspin.com, alan@storlinksemi.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: TCP IP Offloading Interface
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 17:22:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030714002200.GA24697@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030713165323.3fc2601f.davem@redhat.com>
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 04:53:23PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 16:54:24 -0700
> Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> wrote:
>
> > Every time I tried to push the page flip idea or offloading or any of
> > that crap, Andy Bechtolsheim would tell "the CPUs will get faster faster
> > than you can make that work". He was right.
>
> I really don't see why receive is so much of a big deal
> compared to send, and we do a send side version of this
> stuff already with zero problems.
Hey, maybe it isn't, but could you please quantify the cost of the VM
operations? How hard is that?
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Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <ODEIIOAOPGGCDIKEOPILCEMBCMAA.alan@storlinksemi.com>
2003-07-13 7:48 ` TCP IP Offloading Interface David S. Miller
2003-07-13 16:22 ` Roland Dreier
2003-07-13 16:31 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-13 16:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-13 16:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-13 23:02 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-13 23:35 ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-13 23:40 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-13 23:54 ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-13 23:53 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-14 0:22 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2003-07-14 0:24 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-14 0:48 ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-14 0:46 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-07-14 0:42 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-16 2:46 ` Matt Porter
2003-07-14 0:20 ` Roland Dreier
2003-07-14 0:28 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-16 2:37 ` Matt Porter
2003-07-15 5:42 Jordi Ros
2003-07-15 5:51 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-16 5:02 ` jamal
2003-07-16 1:51 ` Roland Dreier
2003-07-15 19:01 ` Ralph Doncaster
2003-07-15 19:36 ` Chris Dukes
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2003-07-15 16:28 David griego
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