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On 7/21/06, Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Jack Vogel wrote:
> > We, myself and Prafulla Deuskar at Intel LAD, have a driver and stack
> > changes that support Intel's new I/OAT DMA hardware. This is a
> > DMA engine in the chipset. There is potential to use the hardware
> >
> > We are hoping to get this code into CURRENT soon if there
> > is interest.
>
>   Sure there is an interest, spare CPU cycles are never superfluous
> in production environment! What hardware (NICs/chipsets) supports this
> I/OAT DMA engine?

Oh, and there is nothing changed in the NIC and its driver, this is just
stack changes together with the chipset dma driver I wrote, so any
NIC on a system will benefit.

Jack