From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Cc: "cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net"
<cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Fastpass: A Centralized "Zero-Queue" Datacenter Network
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 12:41:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55810.1405788087@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 18 Jul 2014 17:23:24 -0700." <CAA93jw6tYvcOiViX+gMa32Hx5jORDNn4dTJ=w=VfyeaFLhArOg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 17:23:24 -0700, Dave Taht said:
> In particular, I'd *really love* to rip most of the network stack out
> of the kernel and into userspace. And I really like the idea of
> writable hardware that can talk to virtual memory from userspace (the
> zynq can)
To misquote Lost Boys, "One thing about living in a microkernel I never could
stomach, all the damn context switches."
Or were you thinking going entirely the opposite direction and offloading to
ever-smarter network cards, sort of a combo of segment offload and zero-copy,
on steroids no less?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-19 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-18 13:48 Jim Reisert AD1C
2014-07-18 23:20 ` David Lang
2014-07-18 23:27 ` David Lang
2014-07-19 0:23 ` Dave Taht
2014-07-19 0:36 ` Dave Taht
2014-07-19 16:41 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2014-07-19 17:31 ` Dave Taht
2014-07-19 0:04 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2014-07-19 0:31 ` David Lang
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