Re: [PATCH 0/8] Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (I/OAT)

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Sat Mar 04 2006 - 13:50:29 EST



>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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