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SubjectRe: Zero Copy IO
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> advantageous to enable zero copy IO than copy_from_user() and copy_to_user
> () all the data. Other OS such as AIX and OS2 have kernel functions that
> can be used to accomplish such a task. Has any ground work been done in
> Linux 2.4 to enable "zero copying IO"?

kiovecs support this. Note that the current kiovec has problems when it comes
to certain kinds of latency critical use and the 2.5 kernel meeting hashed out
some big changes here. But for 2.4 the kiovecs are there
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