Re: zero-copy TCP

[Adam 'WeirdArms' Wiggins <awiggins@cse.unsw.EDU.AU>]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Timur Tabi wrote:

> ** Reply to message from Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj@suse.de> on Tue, 13 Feb
> 2001 20:21:59 +0100
> 
> 
> > > 	I heard that in 2.4 kernel zero-copy TCP and UDP support is added.
> > > Is it true?
> > 
> > No, Zero Copy networking is definately a 2.5 issue.
> 
> What is zero-copy networking, anyway?

	There are no kernel buffers used I beleive. Data goes straigh from
the user space into the device buffers.

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