From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:20:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Ingo Oeser Subject: Re: questions on having a driver pin user memory for DMA In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Weimin Tchen , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On 20 Apr 2000, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Your interface sounds like it walks around all of the networking > code in the kernel. How can that be good? It is not a NIC in the sense that you do TCP/IP over it. These NICs with VIA support are used in high speed homogenous networks between cluster nodes IIRC. So it _is_ ok to work around all this networking code, because they do DSHM and message passing with these networks in a very homogenous manner. Right Weimin? Regards Ingo Oeser -- Feel the power of the penguin - run linux@your.pc :x -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/