Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Nov 2002 17:44:18 -0500 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: Regarding zerocopy implementation ... |
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On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:46:24PM -0500, Robert Love wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 10:23, Manish Lachwani wrote: > > Is there a zerocopy receive implementation in Linux? I know that FreeBSD > > 5.0-CURRENT has such an implementation named zerocopy sockets and when used > > with a Alteon Tigon II NIC with header splitting turned on in Firmware, > > works well. Do we have any such implementation in Linux? Any reponse is > > greatly appreciated ... > > Yes, we have zero-copy networking if the device supports the requisite > features and the driver is so coded.
But we do not perform zero copy receives to userland yet.
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