[OT]Re: zero-copy TCP fileserving

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Sat, 5 Jun 1999 13:43:36 -0400 (EDT)


On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > btw, is there a whitepaper or simile that weighs the merits of skbuff and mbuff against
> > each other? i'd like to have artillery at hand to defend when assailed by bsd zealots.
>
> I've not seen one. And if you profile BSD its normally using mbuf clusters
> so sort of sk_buff like but with extra tests. The BSD stack as in FreeBSD
> nowdays is also a damned nice stack

Too bad the FreeBSD kernel developers can't find anything so nice to say
about Linux.

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