From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Zerocopy implementation issues
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 00:52:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010429005206.J21792@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
Hi,
Can someone please explain to me the rationale behind the zerocopy
implementation that has appeared in 2.4.4 please?
The reason I ask is that even on x86, it seems to me to be extremely
silly to have the expense of doing unaligned checksumming for the gain
of zerocopy.
Just think - if you did checksumming on aligned word boundaries you
could be far faster!
(Yes, you guessed it, its broken on ARM, and is going to make the
networking layer pig slow if we keep the current implementation as
it stands due to the phenominal amount of exceptions it _will_
generate - 1 exception per word in a packet).
I'm still investigating the source of the networking corruptions I'm
seeing, but its looking like the above is the reason (data is being
corrupted on TCP send).
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
next reply other threads:[~2001-04-28 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-28 23:52 Russell King [this message]
2001-04-29 4:50 ` Zerocopy implementation issues David S. Miller
[not found] ` <20010429072342.B30041@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[not found] ` <15083.52835.992666.897323@pizda.ninka.net>
2001-04-29 8:39 ` Russell King
2001-04-29 9:17 ` Russell King
2001-04-29 10:31 ` Russell King
2001-04-29 11:06 ` David S. Miller
2001-04-29 11:18 ` Russell King
2001-04-29 11:32 ` David S. Miller
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