From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rick Jones Subject: Re: I/O Acceleration Technology Nics Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 09:41:18 -0700 Message-ID: <44B7C92E.6050502@hp.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from palrel13.hp.com ([156.153.255.238]:57485 "EHLO palrel13.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161265AbWGNQlT (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:41:19 -0400 To: Ian Brown In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Ian Brown wrote: > Hello, > I came across the e1000 download for linux in intel site. > I saw that in the readme they talk about Intel(R) I/O Acceleration > Technology; > According to this readme , there is support for "systems using the > Intel(R) 5000 Series Chipsets Integrated Device - 1A38". > see: > http://downloadmirror.intel.com/df-support/9180/ENG/README.txt > > My question is : did anybody tried using chipsets with this I/O > Acceleration Technology ? Did he get a significant performance > improvement over non I/O Accelerated nics ? IIRC, there were some measures made and discussed at least a little in netdev. A search of the archives should find them. I would also expect that Intel would have some glossy PDF's on their site touting the performance boosts technology :) They should at least somewhere have some links to actual measurements... > Ian > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html I suspect the URL above there will start one on the path to the email archive. rick jones