indeed :) another words if you have modern NIC than you get "zero-copy"(except copy_to_user()) for free :)
Regards, Dima On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 14:30 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Dmitry Yusupov wrote: > > Rajat, > > > > small correction, if NIC supports DMA operation on receive, than no > > extra copy required. Therefore sock_recvmsg() and tcp_read_sock > > large correction: if NIC supports _checksum_ on receive, then no extra > copy is required. > > Jeff > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
