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Date: Sat,  7 Mar 2009 07:24:51 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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Subject: Re: [9fans] threads vs forks
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> Much of the intelligence
> actually resides in the device driver.  It is that secret sauce
> that gets you good performance.  In theory it could be pushed
> down, but it takes CPU, memory, and memory bandwidth that may
> not be cost effective there.

That would entail a really intelligent controller, which brings us
back to a cache, does it not, this time hidden inside a black box.  I
have been thinking that the obsession with SMP has a negative impact
on diverse engineering where intelligent peripherals take over
operations that are too slow or too demanding on the generic CPU.
Smacks of AoE to me, with a lot more packed into the A.

But I'm just an old software developer with a hobbyist interest in
electronic engineering and my opinions are not backed by much
research.

++L