Re: Questions regarding network drivers

2006-11-13 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 03:21:17PM -0800, Jonathan Day ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > --- Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can use netchannels, which were designed for > > exactly that kind of > > load. > > Actually, netchannels are a mechanism I've been > looking at intensely

Re: Questions regarding network drivers

2006-11-11 Thread Jonathan Day
--- Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can use netchannels, which were designed for > exactly that kind of > load. Actually, netchannels are a mechanism I've been looking at intensely, as a way to simplify this and keep it sane, without loosing performance. > You need to process s

Re: Questions regarding network drivers

2006-11-11 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 09:34:33AM -0800, Jonathan Day ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > First of all, is it possible (and/or "reasonable > > > practice") when developing a network driver to do > > > zero-copy transfers between main memory and the > > > network device? > > > > What do you mean? >

Re: Questions regarding network drivers

2006-11-10 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:34:33 -0800 (PST) Jonathan Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 07:06:00PM -0800, Jonathan > > Day ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've got an interesting problem to contend with

Re: Questions regarding network drivers

2006-11-10 Thread Jonathan Day
--- Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 07:06:00PM -0800, Jonathan > Day ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've got an interesting problem to contend with > and > > need some advice from the great wise ones here. > > > > First of all, is it possible (a

Re: Questions regarding network drivers

2006-11-10 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 07:06:00PM -0800, Jonathan Day ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I've got an interesting problem to contend with and > need some advice from the great wise ones here. > > First of all, is it possible (and/or "reasonable > practice") when developing a network driver to

Questions regarding network drivers

2006-11-09 Thread Jonathan Day
Hi, I've got an interesting problem to contend with and need some advice from the great wise ones here. First of all, is it possible (and/or "reasonable practice") when developing a network driver to do zero-copy transfers between main memory and the network device? Secondly, the network device