Re: zero-copy TCP fileserving

Jes Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch)
25 Sep 1999 11:38:23 +0200


>>>>> "Andi" == Andi Kleen <ak-uu@muc.de> writes:

Andi> Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch (Jes Sorensen) writes:
>> Latency? zero-copy TCP is not going to do anything to the latency,
>> since a NIC that does TCP checksumming on TX will have to do it as
>> 'store and forward' since the checksum is in the header. The world
>> is about bulk data transfers ;-)

Andi> Or you could use XTP with tailer checksums ;);)

Now you are being rude Andi ;-)

Jes

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