RE: TOE brain dump

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


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