Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Oct 1996 20:05:49 +0100 (MET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: "raw" block devices? |
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On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> [...] One of the ways how the SGI gets truely > awesome web server benchmarks is by doing zero-copy disk reads from the > filesystem, and zero-copy network writes. All you need the CPU for is > to set up the DMA's, lock down the memory pages, and stay out of the > way. :-)
... and you need a network card that does hardware checksumming :(((
-- mingo
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