Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 09 Dec 2002 12:15:57 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: 2.5.50-BK + 24 CPUs | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 18:03:10 +0100
Unfortunately zero-copy doesn't help to avoid the schedules: Zero copy just avoid the copy to kernel - you still need one schedule for each page to be transfered.
The zerocopy patches copied up to 64k (or rather, 16 pages, something like that) at once, that's going to lead to 16 times less schedules.
The 64k number was decided arbitrarily (it's what freebsd's pipe code uses) and it can be experimented with.
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