Messages in this thread | | | From | Perry Harrington <> | Subject | Re: Idea to make a kickass TCP read! | Date | Thu, 6 Aug 1998 23:39:57 -0700 (PDT) |
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Why couldn't we at least mmap the skbuffs?
> > > What if we created a read call that was identical in every way, except > > you passed it a SHM handle. It would directly write the data to the > > SHM segment rather than doing a NIC -> kernel -> user operation? > > > > This would make a one copy high performance, low-latency TCP read for > > the Cluster nuts. > > No it wouldnt. Zero copy TCP is hard and on current PC type cards basically > impossible for most cases
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