Re: zero-copy TCP

From: Jes Sorensen (jes@linuxcare.com)
Date: Mon Sep 04 2000 - 09:51:04 EST


>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca> writes:

Richard> Andrew Morton writes:
>> All of them except the 3c905 provide hardware Rx and Tx
>> checksumming of IP, TCP and UDP headers. No 64 bit addressing
>> support.

Richard> And does the driver support it? Has anyone benchmarked the
Richard> performance difference (if any)?

There isn't much gain from using it when we can't do zero copy xmits
in the first place. It might be worth enabling for receive though.

Jes
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