[bf1942] I'm chomping at the bit! (Related to SMP)

W A Wood wawoodtx at attbi.com
Sat May 17 07:42:24 EDT 2003


I think Patrick may have meant IP stack rather than TCP stack. UDP and
TCP are part of IP.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Casey Zacek [mailto:bfb-bf at bogleg.org] 
> Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 2:07 AM
> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> Subject: Re: [bf1942] I'm chomping at the bit! (Related to SMP)
> 
> 
> 
> .. it's just too bad UDP != TCP
> 
> Patrick Gavin wrote (at Fri, May 16, 2003 at 01:53:46PM -0700):
> > I have an extra pre-release TCP offload engine card that I 
> am dying to
> > try out with the 1.4 linux server release. I haven't gotten 
> much time in 
> > with it, but so far they seem to kick some serious ass. 
> Your entire TCP 
> > stack is in silico and it flies! If you need to squeeze 
> more cycles out 
> > of your servers, instead of worrying about stuff like 
> multi-threading 
> > you may want to check out one of these cards when they are released.
> > 
> > Thing is... they give them to me for free and haven't told 
> me how much
> > they are charging for them. I'm in research so I expect 
> them to cost an 
> > arm and a leg. Hopefully they won't be too bad.
> > 
> > -P
> > 
> 
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