On 9/18/07, Garrett D'Amore <Garrett.Damore at sun.com> wrote: > LaoTsao (Dr. Tsao) wrote: > > hi > > what is the timeline for ce to be support in crossbow? > > > > there is no timeline. > > ce is not a gldv3 device. it would first have to be updated to be one. > then there would be the effort to convert it to crossbow. > > the owners of the ce driver code have not been willing to make any > forward looking statements about ce and gldv3. it isn't even clear to > me at this point that they will ever do it. i'm still trying to get a > word one or the other from them... if they aren't doing a ce gldv3 port, > then i may revive my shelved effort. (adding ce support for crossbow > would be fairly easy once the much harder task of updating it for gldv3 > is done. however, updating it for gldv3 will have a negative > performance impact under some workloads unless we can also get soft-lso > integrated. i believe roamer lu is working on soft-lso.)
Hi Garrett, What exactly is soft-lso? Is there a PSARC case that describes this feature? Thanks, - Ryan -- UNIX Administrator http://prefetch.net
