Re: Idea to make a kickass TCP read!

Perry Harrington (pedward@sun4.apsoft.com)
Thu, 6 Aug 1998 23:39:57 -0700 (PDT)


Why couldn't we at least mmap the skbuffs?

>
> > What if we created a read call that was identical in every way, except
> > you passed it a SHM handle. It would directly write the data to the
> > SHM segment rather than doing a NIC -> kernel -> user operation?
> >
> > This would make a one copy high performance, low-latency TCP read for
> > the Cluster nuts.
>
> No it wouldnt. Zero copy TCP is hard and on current PC type cards basically
> impossible for most cases

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