Re: zero-copy TCP fileserving

Jes Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch)
25 Sep 1999 11:37:51 +0200


>>>>> "Zach" == Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net> writes:

>> Latency? zero-copy TCP is not going to do anything to the latency,

Zach> It All Depends :)

Zach> imagine a big scary multi bussed machine where the packet was
Zach> being read/written to be copy/csumed and then dmaed from a card
Zach> that is local to that remote memory.. someone get dave a ss2000
Zach> with lots of system boards and hmes..

If you want to do message passing or shared memory systems, do you
really want to do it over TCP? I think like ST is way more interesting
for this.

Me don't think so.

Jes

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