Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:09:36 -0800 From: Aman Singla <aman@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com> To: "Mailing List, Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> Subject: Scheduled Transfer Protocol on Linux Hi, I'd like to announce the source code release for Scheduled Transfer Protocol (STP) support in Linux. SGI played a major role in the development of STP to address 2 sides of the performance coin at the same time: high bandwidth and low latency. Current GSN hardware with STP achieves 720MB/sec on a single stream in bandwidth and 6 usec in latency validating these combined design goals. SGI is interested in bringing the STP technology to Linux, and to lower cost interfaces like Gigabit Ethernet. This is an experimental 0.1 alpha release providing some pieces towards this goal. This release is not intended to be integrated into the kernel in its current state of development. We'd like this release to serve as the framework to define our goals for the project and the issues we're attempting to address, get feedback regarding our approach for its continued development, explore avenues to leverage off and provide leverage to any related work, and to invite contributions from everyone interested. The code constitutes a minimal patch to the kernel to enable support for STP. The core of the STP functionality can be loaded/unloaded as modules (or linked into the kernel). Please refer to http://oss.sgi.com/projects/stp to download the code, to get more information about STP and the project, or to join the STP development mailing list. thanks, Aman Singla (aman@sgi.com) SGI - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/