Messages in this thread | | | From | "Jonathan Earle" <> | Subject | RE: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10 | Date | Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:52:19 -0500 |
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> > What are "zerocopy patch set"s? > > Basically, if you want to send something to the network, the > kernel has to > copy your data to its memory space. It is an overhead and with these > patches, the kernel doesn't has to do it. So it is faster. > Moreover, few > ethernet cards are able to compute the ip checksum so linux > doesn't need > anymore to do that.
Hmm.. so things like routing should be faster then? What caveats should one watch for (ie: what functionalities will not work as before - if any)?
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