Re: Tcp/ip offload card driver

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Sat, 11 May 2002 19:56:34 -0700 (PDT)


From: Lincoln Dale <ltd@cisco.com>
Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 11:53:33 +1000

for example, if TOE was supported in a driver (eg. /dev/toeN) which allowed
user-space to mmap() into RAM (either on the card or main memory which the
TOE card DMAs into/out-of).

This is a very old concept, see UNET.

But that is %100 outside the realm of the TCP on a card stuff.
You don't even need firmware to do UNET, you just export the
packet descriptor rings into userspace. Like I said, it's a
"been there, done that" technology.

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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