Subject: RE: TOE brain dump

From: "Alan Shih" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 23:22:52 -0700

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

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From: [email-masked]
[mailto:[email-masked]]On Behalf Of Ben Greear
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 9:02 PM
To: Jeff Garzik
Cc: Nivedita Singhvi; Werner Almesberger; [email-masked];
[email-masked]
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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