From: Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net>
To: "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" <filia@softhome.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: TOE brain dump
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 16:32:56 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030804163256.M5798@almesberger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F2E1F7B.3020906@softhome.net>; from filia@softhome.net on Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:55:23AM +0200
Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote:
> It makes not that much sense to run kernel (especially Linux) on CPU
> which is optimized for handling of network packets. (And has actually
> several co-processors to help in this task).
All you need to do is to make the CPU capable of running the kernel
(well, some of it), but it doesn't have to be particularly good at
running anything but the TCP/IP code. And you can still benefit
from most of the features of NPUs, such as a specialized memory
architecture, parallel data paths, accelerated operations, etc.
- Werner
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Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <g83n.8vu.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-03 12:13 ` TOE brain dump Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-03 18:10 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-04 8:55 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-04 13:08 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-08-04 19:32 ` Werner Almesberger [this message]
2003-08-04 19:48 ` David Lang
2003-08-04 19:56 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-04 20:01 ` David Lang
2003-08-04 20:09 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-04 20:24 ` David Lang
2003-08-05 1:38 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-05 1:46 ` David Lang
2003-08-05 1:54 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-05 2:30 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-06 1:47 ` Val Henson
2003-08-05 3:04 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-04 23:30 ` Peter Chubb
2003-08-04 18:36 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2003-08-04 19:03 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <gq0f.8bj.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <gvCD.4mJ.5@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <gJmp.7Th.33@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <gNpS.2YJ.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-04 14:15 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-04 14:56 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-08-04 15:51 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-02 17:04 Werner Almesberger
2003-08-02 17:32 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2003-08-02 18:06 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-02 19:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-02 21:49 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-03 6:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-03 17:57 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-03 18:27 ` Erik Andersen
2003-08-03 19:40 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-03 20:13 ` David Lang
2003-08-03 20:30 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-03 21:21 ` David Lang
2003-08-03 23:44 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-03 21:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-05 19:28 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-03 20:34 ` jamal
2003-08-04 1:47 ` Glen Turner
2003-08-04 3:48 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-06 7:12 ` Andre Hedrick
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.10.10308060009130.25045-100000@master.linux-ide .org>
2003-08-06 8:20 ` Lincoln Dale
2003-08-06 8:22 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-06 13:07 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-08-03 19:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-08-04 19:24 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-04 19:26 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-05 17:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-08-06 5:13 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-06 7:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-08-06 13:37 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-06 15:58 ` Andy Isaacson
2003-08-06 16:27 ` Chris Friesen
2003-08-06 17:01 ` Andy Isaacson
2003-08-06 17:55 ` Matti Aarnio
2003-08-07 2:14 ` Lincoln Dale
2003-08-06 12:46 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-08-06 16:25 ` Andy Isaacson
2003-08-06 18:58 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-08-06 19:39 ` Andy Isaacson
2003-08-06 21:13 ` David Schwartz
2003-08-03 4:01 ` Ben Greear
2003-08-03 6:22 ` Alan Shih
2003-08-03 6:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-03 8:25 ` David Lang
2003-08-03 18:05 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-03 22:02 ` Alan Shih
2003-08-03 20:52 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-04 14:36 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-08-04 17:19 ` Alan Shih
2003-08-05 8:15 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-08-02 20:57 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-02 22:14 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-03 20:51 ` Alan Cox
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