RE: TOE brain dump

Hmm,

So would main processor still need a copy of the data for re-transmission?
Won't that defeat the purpose?

Alan

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Ingo Oeser
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 7:36 AM
To: Jeff Garzik
Cc: Nivedita Singhvi; Werner Almesberger; netdev@oss.sgi.com;
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TOE brain dump


Hi Jeff,

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 03:08:52PM -0400, 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
memory bus instead of offloading portions of TCP that do not need to be
offloaded.

Exactly what I suggested: sys_ioroute()

"Providing generic pipelines and io routing as Linux service"
Msg-ID: [off-list ref]

on linux-kernel and linux-fsdevel

Be my guest.

I know, that you mean doing it in hardware, but you cannot
accelerate sth. which the kernel doesn't do ;-)

Regards

Ingo Oeser