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From: Andrew Theurer <andrewt@austin.rr.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP zero-copy
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:28:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01080310285302.02989@linux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <663CE32D.1D4A9213.0F45C3B8@netscape.net> <3B6A7B96.1591.241743@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <3B6A7B96.1591.241743@localhost>

On Friday 03 August 2001 04:23,  wrote:
> I believe this behaviour is only possible for cards which have the
> ability to dma what appears as a list of skb data fragments and
> also has the ability to checksum the data. Namely the Alteon, now
> 3com, ACENIC and the sun hme device.

Intel now has an e1000 driver as well.

> Does this kernel modification completely remove the need for a
> copy/checksum of the data between user and kernel space on both
> transmit and receive ?

Transmit for sure.  You should no longer see csum_partial_copy_generic() when 
using zerocopy.

> I have written a driver for an Intel ixf1002 chip, which has some
> surrounding HW, and is capable of checksumming and processing
> dma in fragments. Is there any information on what changes I
> would have to make to the driver to support zerocopy/checksum ?

Which card is this?

Andrew Theurer

  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-03 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <15210.4821.318434.454971@pizda.ninka.net>
2001-08-02 18:23 ` TCP zero-copy hochakhung
2001-08-03  9:23   ` simon
2001-08-03 15:28     ` Andrew Theurer [this message]
2001-08-06  0:32     ` Andi Kleen

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