Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2006 01:20:37 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: async network I/O, event channels, etc | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:11:15 +0200
> Ownership transition from user -> kernel that is, what I'm trying to say > that returning ownership to the user again is the tricky part.
Yes, it is important that for TCP, for example, we don't give the user the event until the data is acknowledged and the skb's referencing that data are fully freed.
This is further complicated by the fact that packetization boundaries are going to be different from AIO buffer boundaries.
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