Re: [PATCH 1/1] network memory allocator.

From: Keith Owens
Date: Mon Aug 14 2006 - 08:05:25 EST


Evgeniy Polyakov (on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:04:03 +0400) wrote:
>Network tree allocator can be used to allocate memory for all network
>operations from any context....
>...
>Design of allocator allows to map all node's pages into userspace thus
>allows to have true zero-copy support for both sending and receiving
>dataflows.

Is that true for architectures with virtually indexed caches? How do
you avoid the cache aliasing problems?

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