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SubjectRe: [PATCH] zerocopy NFS updated
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Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp> writes:

> But I wonder about sendpage. I guess HW IP checksum for outgoing
> pages might be miscalculated as VFS can update them anytime.
> New feature like COW pagecache should be added to VM and they
> should be duplicated in this case.

For hw checksums it should not be a problem. NICs usually load
the packet into their packet fifo and compute the checksum on the fly
and then patch it into the header in the fifo before sending it out. A
NIC that would do slow PCI bus mastering twice just to compute the checksum
would be very dumb and I doubt they exist (if yes I bet it would be
faster to do software checksumming on them). When the NIC only
accesses the memory once there is no race window.

-Andi
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