From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kumar Gala Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (I/OAT) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 16:58:01 -0600 Message-ID: <54FF0817-23ED-47F1-8234-FD3079B3E403@kernel.crashing.org> References: <20060303214036.11908.10499.stgit@gitlost.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060303214036.11908.10499.stgit@gitlost.site> To: Chris Leech Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mar 3, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Chris Leech wrote: > This patch series is the first 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 DaveM's net-2.6.17 tree as of commit > 2bd84a93d8bb7192ad8c23ef41008502be1cb603 ([IRDA]: TOIM3232 dongle > support) > > They are available to pull from > git://198.78.49.142/~cleech/linux-2.6 ioat-2.6.17 > > There are 8 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) Add a sysctl to tune the minimum offloaded I/O size for TCP > 8) The main TCP receive offload changes How does this relate to Dan William's ADMA work? http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=113892936300001&r=1&w=2 - kumar