From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Mason Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/3] ioat: DMA engine support Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 11:06:38 -0600 Message-ID: <20051202170638.GA1443@us.ibm.com> References: <4384F110.4060908@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andrew Grover , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, john.ronciak@intel.com, christopher.leech@intel.com Return-path: To: Jeff Garzik Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4384F110.4060908@pobox.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 05:45:36PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Andrew Grover wrote: > >As presented in our talk at this year's OLS, the Bensley platform, which > >will be out in early 2006, will have an asyncronous DMA engine. It can be > >used to offload copies from the CPU, such as the kernel copies of received > >packets into the user buffer. > > More than a one-paragraph description would be nice... URLs to OLS and > IDF presentations, other info? > > Jeff > FYI, OLS paper can be found at http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2005/linuxsymposium_procv1.pdf Starting at page 281. Other info can be found at http://www.intel.com/technology/ioacceleration/index.htm