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Date:      Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:49:52 -0700
From:      "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel@gmail.com>
To:        "Dmitry Pryanishnikov" <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua>
Cc:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>, net@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, "David G. Lawrence" <dg@dglawrence.com>
Subject:   Re: complement to sendfile()?
Message-ID:  <2a41acea0607210849k6ad6693ey1d683910d81e9d41@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060721111838.M77932@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua>
References:  <200607192230.14939.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <20060720025003.GF924@tnn.dglawrence.com> <44BFB667.60106@elischer.org> <2a41acea0607201111x84c4ef8jf8cdb50d3ffa28e0@mail.gmail.com> <20060721111838.M77932@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua>

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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



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