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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: Manish Lachwani <manish@Zambeel.com>,
	"'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Regarding zerocopy implementation ...
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 17:44:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021106174418.F18836@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1036619185.3405.1407.camel@phantasy>; from rml@tech9.net on Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:46:24PM -0500

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:46:24PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 10:23, Manish Lachwani wrote:
> > Is there a zerocopy receive implementation in Linux? I know that FreeBSD
> > 5.0-CURRENT has such an implementation named zerocopy sockets and when used
> > with a Alteon Tigon II NIC with header splitting turned on in Firmware,
> > works well. Do we have any such implementation in Linux? Any reponse is
> > greatly appreciated ...
> 
> Yes, we have zero-copy networking if the device supports the requisite
> features and the driver is so coded.

But we do not perform zero copy receives to userland yet.

		-ben

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-06 22:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-06 15:23 Regarding zerocopy implementation Manish Lachwani
2002-11-06 21:46 ` Robert Love
2002-11-06 22:44   ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-11-06 22:47     ` bert hubert
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-06 22:01 Manish Lachwani
2002-11-06 22:45 ` Robert Love
2002-11-06 22:56 Manish Lachwani

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