Re: zero-copy TCP fileserving

Zach Brown (zab@zabbo.net)
Fri, 4 Jun 1999 13:21:33 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> So all this talk of zero-copy file serving, scatter gather DMA and so on
> would require some kind of mbuf abstraction?

sort of. we just have to toss a kiobuf in skbuffs and then have paths
through the socket code that hand tcp a kiobuf to tack headers onto..

-- zach

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