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Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 19:46:22 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (I/OAT)
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>This patch series is the first full release of the Intel(R) I/O
>Acceleration Technology (I/OAT) for Linux.  It includes an in kernel API
>for offloading memory copies to hardware, a driver for the I/OAT DMA memcpy
>engine, and changes to the TCP stack to offload copies of received
>networking data to application space.
>
Does this buy the normal standard desktop user anything?


Jan Engelhardt
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