Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Apr 2005 13:36:20 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: More performance for the TCP stack by using additional hardware chip on NIC |
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On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 13:29:14 +0300 Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il> wrote:
> TOEs can remove the data copy on receive. In some applications (notably > storage), where the application does not touch most of the data, this is > a significant advantage that cannot be achieved in a software-only > solution.
You don't need to offload the TCP stack to make this case get zero-copy behavior. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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