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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bcrl@kvack.org
Cc: drepper@gmail.com, da-x@monatomic.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Status of AIO
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:51:29 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060306.165129.62204114.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060307004237.GT20768@kvack.org>

From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 19:42:37 -0500

> I'm open to suggestions. =-)  So far my thoughts have mostly been limited 
> to how to make tx faster, at which point you have to go into the kernel 
> somehow to deal with the virtual => physical address translation (be it 
> with a locked buffer or whatever) and kicking the hardware.  Rx has been 
> much less interesting simply because the hardware side doesn't offer as 
> much.

I think any such VM tricks need serious thought.  It has serious
consequences as far as cost especially on SMP.  Evgivny has some data
that shows this, and chapter 5 of Networking Algorithmics has a lot of
good analysis and paper references on this topic.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-07  0:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-06  6:24 Dan Aloni
2006-03-06 15:05 ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-06 21:18 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-06 22:53   ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-03-06 23:15     ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-08  7:09       ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-03-08 15:58         ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-06 23:33     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-07  0:24       ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07  0:42         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-07  0:51           ` David S. Miller [this message]
2006-03-07  1:39             ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-07  2:04               ` Dan Aloni
2006-03-07  2:07                 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-07  3:11                   ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07  7:33                   ` Dan Aloni
2006-03-07  3:06               ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07 16:35                 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-07  1:34         ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-07  3:04           ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07  4:07             ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-07  6:02               ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07 16:06                 ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-07  1:30   ` Dan Aloni
2006-03-07  1:37     ` Nicholas Miell
2006-03-07  1:37     ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-07  1:40     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-06 23:18 ` Phillip Susi

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