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I'm trying to find out more about sendfile(2).  So far, from what I've
gathered, it sounds like the requirements for it are (please correct me if
I'm wrong):

1. A kernel with sendfile support (i.e. 2.4.X)
2. A network card capable of doing the TCP checksum in the hardware
3. The application must support sendfile

Do you know what applications support zerocopy (sendfile)? I noticed that a
zerocopy NFS patch was added to the 2.5.x tree. Does the 2.4.X NFS daemon
support zerocopy? Does samba support zerocopy and if so what version?

Only me,
Stanley Yee

-----Original Message-----
From: Gianni Tedesco [mailto:gianni@ecsc.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 1:14 AM
To: Stanley Yee
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List
Subject: Re: Zero copy in 2.4 kernels


On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 01:48, Stanley Yee wrote:
> Is the zero copy function enabled by default in the 2.4.X kernels? If so
> which kernel version and what do I need to do to enable it? Thanks for
your
> time.

sendfile(2) does zero-copy writes from files to sockets, works on any
version of 2.4 AFAIK.

HTH

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