Re: Make pipe data structure be a circular list of pages, rather

Alan Cox
2005-01-16T00:01:31Z

On Sad, 2005-01-15 at 23:42, linux@horizon.com wrote:
> The beauty of Linus's scheme is that direct hardware-to-hardware
> copying is possible, without inventing new kernel interfaces.

You appear to need some simple kernel interfaces but not many and the
low level is there. This looks much cleaner (although perhaps not as
clever yet on the invalidation/cache side) as Matt Dillon and Alan Cox
(the other Alan Cox not me) are doing on Dragonfly BSD in the same sort
of direction.