Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 9 Jan 2001 19:09:59 -0800 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: storage over IP (was Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1) |
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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 19:18:53 -0800 (PST) From: dean gaudet <dean-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org>
- NIC DMAs packet to memory - CPU reads headers from memory, figures out it's NFS - CPU copies data bytes from packet image in memory to pagecache
Yes, this is precisely what happens in the NFS client with the zerocopy patches applied.
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