Re: I/OAT: Call for discussion

2006-04-20 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
On 4/20/06, Jack Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/19/06, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 10:28:41AM -0700, John Ronciak wrote: > > > The hardware is going to generally available in June. There are also > > > lots of OEMs, OSVs and hardware vendors th

Re: I/OAT: Call for discussion

2006-04-20 Thread Jack Vogel
On 4/19/06, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 10:28:41AM -0700, John Ronciak wrote: > > The hardware is going to generally available in June. There are also > > lots of OEMs, OSVs and hardware vendors that have the system to test > > on today. The early rollou

Re: I/OAT: Call for discussion

2006-04-19 Thread Andrew Grover
On 4/19/06, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 19 April 2006 18:39, Grover, Andrew wrote: > > > We have posted all the performance data we have gathered so far on the > > linux-net wiki: http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/I/OAT , and listed > > the overall concerns that have been

Re: I/OAT: Call for discussion

2006-04-19 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 18:39, Grover, Andrew wrote: > We have posted all the performance data we have gathered so far on the > linux-net wiki: http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/I/OAT , and listed > the overall concerns that have been expressed in private. I'm hoping you > will look at the da

Re: I/OAT: Call for discussion

2006-04-19 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 10:28:41AM -0700, John Ronciak wrote: > The hardware is going to generally available in June. There are also > lots of OEMs, OSVs and hardware vendors that have the system to test > on today. The early rollout of hardware has been very large. As a start to get people actu

Re: I/OAT: Call for discussion

2006-04-19 Thread John Ronciak
On 4/19/06, Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Off list lobbying usually has a negative impact. The lobbying was for vendor inclusion and not necessarily for upstream acceptance. > The biggest barrier at this point seems to be hardware availability. > People generally don't care unless

Re: I/OAT: Call for discussion

2006-04-19 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:39:37 -0700 "Grover, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Over the past few months, we (the Intel networking group) have been > working hard, often off-list, to get the I/OAT patches we've posted here > merged into the mainline kernel branch, as well as Red Hat and SuSE. > W

I/OAT: Call for discussion

2006-04-19 Thread Grover, Andrew
Over the past few months, we (the Intel networking group) have been working hard, often off-list, to get the I/OAT patches we've posted here merged into the mainline kernel branch, as well as Red Hat and SuSE. We've had some success, but not what's really important: getting it into the mainline ker