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Hello!

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Jack Vogel wrote:
> We, myself and Prafulla Deuskar at Intel LAD, have a driver and stack
> changes that support Intel's new I/OAT DMA hardware. This is a
> DMA engine in the chipset. There is potential to use the hardware
>
> We are hoping to get this code into CURRENT soon if there
> is interest.

  Sure there is an interest, spare CPU cycles are never superfluous
in production environment! What hardware (NICs/chipsets) supports this
I/OAT DMA engine?

Sincerely, Dmitry
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Atlantis ISP, System Administrator
e-mail:  dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua
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