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Re: zero-copy TCP

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Subject: Re: zero-copy TCP
From: Timur Tabi <ttabi@interactivesi.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 13:34:07 -0600
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** Reply to message from Adam 'WeirdArms' Wiggins <awiggins@cse.unsw.EDU.AU> on
Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:32:38 +1100 (EST)


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

Are network cards so fast and CPU/memory so slow that this makes a difference?


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