Re: Tcp/ip offload card driver

john slee (indigoid@higherplane.net)
Sun, 12 May 2002 10:55:37 +1000


On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 10:51:06AM -0500, Nicholas Harring wrote:
> And how about when an SMP system isn't enough? Should I have to
> re-engineer my network storage architecture when hardware exists that'll
> increase throughput if a simple device driver gets written? Don't forget
> that with 64 bit PCI that the limit of the bus has been raised, and with

jeff merkey has already demonstrated 300MiB/sec and higher speeds on x86
linux, with 3ware raid and dolphin sci cards. how much faster do you
need to go?

j.

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