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SubjectRe: Idea to make a kickass TCP read!
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> What if we created a read call that was identical in every way, except
> you passed it a SHM handle. It would directly write the data to the
> SHM segment rather than doing a NIC -> kernel -> user operation?
>
> This would make a one copy high performance, low-latency TCP read for
> the Cluster nuts.

No it wouldnt. Zero copy TCP is hard and on current PC type cards basically
impossible for most cases



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