Hi,
What is zero copy mechanism in ethernet drivers.
Regards
Venkat
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<quote who="Venkat Raghu">
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> Hi,
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> What is zero copy mechanism in ethernet drivers.
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> Regards
> Venkat
Zero copy is intended to bypass the need of copying the user space buffer in kernel
space via copy_from_user.
It is achieved by mapping dma buffer in user space for exaple so that eth driver can
directly use them for dma
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Emiliano Gabrielli
dip. di Fisica
2? Universit? di Roma "Tor Vergata"
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Emiliano Gabrielli
dip. di Fisica
2? Universit? di Roma "Tor Vergata"