Re: Thread implementations...

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 26 Jun 1998 01:25:27 +0100 (BST)

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> the best you can do is 1/3 memory speed. DMA in, checksum,
> DMA out. Or can you copy-and-checksum directly to the
> buffers of the Ethernet card?

Right now we DMA in copy-checksum to buffers and DMA out. Otherwise
you got to go play with memory locking, kernel side COW and stuff
and kernel side COW is (pardon the pun) not a cow but a pig.

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