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* RE: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10
@ 2001-01-24 21:52 Jonathan Earle
  2001-01-24 23:33 ` Peter Samuelson
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 27+ messages in thread
From: Jonathan Earle @ 2001-01-24 21:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 'Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer', linux-kernel

> > What are "zerocopy patch set"s?
> 
> Basically, if you want to send something to the network, the 
> kernel has to
> copy your data to its memory space. It is an overhead and with these
> patches, the kernel doesn't has to do it. So it is faster. 
> Moreover, few
> ethernet cards are able to compute the ip checksum so linux 
> doesn't need
> anymore to do that.

Hmm.. so things like routing should be faster then?  What caveats should one
watch for (ie: what functionalities will not work as before - if any)?

Cheers!
Jon
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* RE: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10
@ 2001-01-24 21:34 Jonathan Earle
  2001-01-24 21:45 ` Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 27+ messages in thread
From: Jonathan Earle @ 2001-01-24 21:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 'David S. Miller', linux-kernel

> I'm back from OZ, and to help deal with my sudden lack of Victoria
> Bitter, I've made a new zerocopy patch set.

What are "zerocopy patch set"s?

Cheers!
Jon
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2001-01-25  1:40 ` [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10 Andrew Morton
2001-01-25 19:29   ` kuznet
2001-01-25 20:28     ` Ion Badulescu
2001-01-25 20:36       ` kuznet
2001-01-25 20:43     ` David S. Miller
2001-01-25 21:11       ` Ion Badulescu
2001-01-26 19:43         ` kuznet
2001-01-29 22:02         ` David S. Miller
2001-01-25 21:14       ` David S. Miller
2001-01-25 21:29         ` Steve Whitehouse
2001-01-31 16:04           ` Alan Cox
2001-03-11 20:55             ` NBD Fix (attempt #2) Steve Whitehouse
2001-01-25 21:38         ` [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10 David S. Miller
2001-01-26  6:06         ` Ion Badulescu
2001-01-26 13:13         ` David S. Miller
2001-01-26 20:43           ` Ion Badulescu
2001-01-27  0:55             ` Ion Badulescu
2001-01-27 18:39               ` kuznet
2001-01-27 21:18                 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-01-30  6:02                 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-26  1:27     ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-25  9:29 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-24 21:52 Jonathan Earle
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2001-01-31 22:42   ` Rogerio Brito

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