From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <d0e0ba64ad185a4a2529c9248a1d9ef1@coraid.com>
References: <4129bd2e772e6f2068f8cd02d61c28a3@quintile.net>
	<d0e0ba64ad185a4a2529c9248a1d9ef1@coraid.com>
Date: Wed,  6 Jul 2011 10:18:42 -0700
Message-ID: <CAP6exY+bHCXz6_2BpbFbZdczA+n9WqxRsUWymZhbdvDPOc67gg@mail.gmail.com>
From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Subject: Re: [9fans] pcie for inter machine comms
Topicbox-Message-UUID: fb074556-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025

http://www.epn-online.com/page/new59551/pcie-switch-devices.html and
http://www.plxtech.com/products/expresslane/switches

This seems to come up with every new generation of a new bus, such as
pci or lately pcie. It has a lot of limits and, eventually, people
just go with a fast network. For one thing, it doesn't grow that big
and, for another, error handling can be interesting.

ron