From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Leech Subject: [PATCH 0/9] I/OAT repost Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 17:16:53 -0700 Message-ID: <20060524001653.19403.31396.stgit@gitlost.site> Return-path: Received: from [63.64.152.142] ([63.64.152.142]:1286 "EHLO gitlost.site") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932117AbWEXAPN (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2006 20:15:13 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org This is a repost of the I/OAT patches, the only changes from last time are refreshing the patches and removing an unused macro that was causing the vger spam filters to drop patch 2/9. This patch series is the a full release of the Intel(R) I/O Acceleration Technology (I/OAT) for Linux. It includes an in kernel API for offloading memory copies to hardware, a driver for the I/OAT DMA memcpy engine, and changes to the TCP stack to offload copies of received networking data to application space. These changes apply to Linus' tree as of commit 387e2b0439026aa738a9edca15a57e5c0bcb4dfc [BRIDGE]: need to ref count the LLC sap They are available to pull from git://63.64.152.142/~cleech/linux-2.6 ioat-2.6.18 There are 9 patches in the series: 1) The memcpy offload APIs and class code 2) The Intel I/OAT DMA driver (ioatdma) 3) Core networking code to setup networking as a DMA memcpy client 4) Utility functions for sk_buff to iovec offloaded copy 5) Structure changes needed for TCP receive offload 6) Rename cleanup_rbuf to tcp_cleanup_rbuf 7) Make sk_eat_skb aware of early copied packets 8) Add a sysctl to tune the minimum offloaded I/O size for TCP 9) The main TCP receive offload changes -- Chris Leech I/O Acceleration Technology Software Development LAN Access Division / Digital Enterprise Group