Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 7 May 2001 11:25:28 -0700 (PDT) | From | dean gaudet <> | Subject | Re: [Question] Explanation of zero-copy networking |
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On Mon, 7 May 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> when the hardware I/O is used. This shows that the network code, alone, > cannot be improved very much to provide an improvement in throughput.
doesn't your analysis assume that we've got nothing else interesting to do while doing the network i/o? for example, i may want to do something else which needs the memory bandwidth i'd otherwise spend on a single-copy...
-dean
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