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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

  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-14  0:22 UTC|newest]

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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-15 16:28 David griego

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