From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alan Shih" Subject: RE: TOE brain dump Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 23:22:52 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: References: <3F2C891B.7080004@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Nivedita Singhvi" , "Werner Almesberger" , , Return-path: To: "Ben Greear" , "Jeff Garzik" In-Reply-To: <3F2C891B.7080004@candelatech.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org A DMA xfer that fills the NIC pipe with IDE source. That's not very hard... need a lot of bufferring/FIFO though. May require large modification to the file serving applications? Alan -----Original Message----- From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Ben Greear Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 9:02 PM To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Nivedita Singhvi; Werner Almesberger; netdev@oss.sgi.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: TOE brain dump Jeff Garzik wrote: > So, fix the other end of the pipeline too, otherwise this fast network > stuff is flashly but pointless. If you want to serve up data from disk, > then start creating PCI cards that have both Serial ATA and ethernet > connectors on them :) Cut out the middleman of the host CPU and host I for one would love to see something like this, and not just Serial ATA.. but maybe 8x Serial ATA and RAID :) Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com