Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Mark Russinovich's reponse Was: [OT] Comments to WinNT Mag !! (fwd) | Date | Wed, 5 May 1999 00:52:50 +0100 (BST) |
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> Most of this would suggest that their existing architecture passes > mbuf-chain-like buffers to the networking drivers in NT, or some other > kind of scatter-gather list like scheme. This is the only way they > could do zero-copy without driver updates from all the networking card > vendors.
They do exactly that. If you are curious get the NDIS SDK. It is very close to BSD mbufs with a vaguely streams like stacking setup.
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