RE: Regarding zerocopy implementation ...

From: Manish Lachwani (manish@Zambeel.com)
Date: Wed Nov 06 2002 - 17:56:35 EST

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Yes, but what abt the support in the kernel?

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From: bert hubert [mailto:ahu@ds9a.nl]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 2:48 PM
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Subject: Re: Regarding zerocopy implementation ...

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 05:44:18PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:

> > 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.

It has been opted that sendfile with reversed arguments could function as
'recvfile' and be renamed to 'copyfd' or something more generic like that.

Regards,

bert

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