Table of Contents

Offload Engines - Working Group – BSDCan 2012

May 9th, 2012 9:00-12:00 EDT

Working Group Presentation

Attendees

Overview

Storage and network applications can benefit from CPU offload and/or acceleration engines for DMA, memfill, XOR/PQ. Currently, FreeBSD does not have an infrastructure in place where these engines can be registered with the kernel, nor applications can generically take advantage of such engines if they exist.

The purpose of this working group would be to identify the following:

Agenda

9:00-9:15 Introductions
9:15-10:30 Offload Engine Brainstorm
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:45 Next Steps and Opens
11:45-12:00 Review Follow-up Items