Correcting myself ...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is very little bulk copying in the IP forwarding path of the
> kernel, so the higher bandwidth of RAMBUS would not provide much
> benefit. I suppose it would speed up the DMA transfers between the
> NICs and RAM.
Actually, it wouldn't help the DMA transfers either. They'd be
limited by the PCI bus bandwidth, not the memory bandwidth.
John
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