Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/3] ioat: DMA engine support

From: Jon Mason <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 11:06:38 -0600

On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 05:45:36PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Andrew Grover wrote:
> >As presented in our talk at this year's OLS, the Bensley platform, which 
> >will be out in early 2006, will have an asyncronous DMA engine. It can be 
> >used to offload copies from the CPU, such as the kernel copies of received 
> >packets into the user buffer.
> 
> More than a one-paragraph description would be nice...  URLs to OLS and 
> IDF presentations, other info?
> 
> 	Jeff
> 
FYI,
OLS paper can be found at
http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2005/linuxsymposium_procv1.pdf
Starting at page 281.

Other info can be found at
http://www.intel.com/technology/ioacceleration/index.htm