Re: timestamp offload [was Re: TCP&IP cksum offload on FreeBSD 4.2]

2001-09-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Gallatin writes: > >Louis A. Mamakos writes: > > > > Some work I did a year or so ago measured the interrupt response time > > latency, and it was pretty impressive at how large and variable it > > could be. > > > > louie > >Yes. Me too, but with a pame

Re: timestamp offload [was Re: TCP&IP cksum offload on FreeBSD 4.2]

2001-09-28 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Louis A. Mamakos writes: > > Some work I did a year or so ago measured the interrupt response time > latency, and it was pretty impressive at how large and variable it > could be. > > louie Yes. Me too, but with a pamette, not a nic. Have you read the pci pamette perf paper (Systems

timestamp offload [was Re: TCP&IP cksum offload on FreeBSD 4.2]

2001-09-28 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
The cool thing I've always wanted to do with these programmable network adapters is to have them capture timestamps of when packets are received for high-accuracy latency measurements. The network adapter could drop a timestamp into some header when it's DMA'ed into the host's memory. The times