From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wes Felter Subject: Re: The ultimate TOE design Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:35:31 -0500 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: References: <4148991B.9050200@pobox.com> <4148A561.5070401@redhat.com> <20040915211543.GA23906@havoc.gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: netdev@oss.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <20040915211543.GA23906@havoc.gtf.org> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 04:03:57PM -0500, Wes Felter wrote: > >>To do 10 Gbps Ethernet with Jeff's approach, wouldn't you need a 5-10 >>GHz processor on the card? Sounds expensive. > > > Do you need a 5-10 Ghz Intel server to handle 10 Gbps ethernet? Yes. (Or a 4-way ~2GHz server.) When the fastest general-purpose processors cannot handle the fastest Ethernet links, putting such a processor on a NIC won't help much. I think this is why people are attracted to TOE ASICs, even if that isn't the right solution. -- Wes Felter - wesley@felter.org - http://felter.org/wesley/