Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

Reto Baettig
2000-10-31T20:33:55Z

Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Why not solve the problem at the source and completely redesign the
> > network stack? Get rid of the old sk_buff & co! Rip the whole network
> > layer out! Redesign it and give the user a possibility of Zero-Copy
> > networking!
>
> For one because you don't need to do that to get zero copy networking for
> most real world cases. Tux already implements the neccessary infrastructure
> for these.

And what if I'd like to use the network for something different than
html?

I'm sorry but I don't know TUX. Does it implement its own TCP stack?

Reto