Re: Idea to make a kickass TCP read!

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:52:16 +0100 (BST)


> Why couldn't we at least mmap the skbuffs?

By the time you've done the required TLB flushes on an SMP box at least
a copy would have been cheaper. You can do ring buffers mapped into user
space stuff - U-Net does exactly that. Its a recognition that sometimes
ultralow latencies require specialist interfaces

Alan

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