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From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: zero copy with PACKET_MMAP
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:58:30 +0100
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On 02/27/2014 07:40 AM, ratheesh kannoth wrote:
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> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt
> talks about  achieving zero copy. But i find a deep  packet copy ( of
> length snaplen= skb->len )  here
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/net/packet/af_packet.c#L1841.
>
> Is there anything missing/wrong in my understanding ?

The zero-copy is between user and kernel space.