Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261835AbTEQVI7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2003 17:08:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261849AbTEQVI7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2003 17:08:59 -0400 Received: from 205-158-62-158.outblaze.com ([205.158.62.158]:9426 "HELO spf1.us.outblaze.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261835AbTEQVI6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2003 17:08:58 -0400 Message-ID: <20030517212152.8385.qmail@mail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404) From: "Lee Chin" To: hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 16:21:52 -0500 X-Originating-Ip: 12.234.25.72 X-Originating-Server: ws1-2.us4.outblaze.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 720 Lines: 15 Barring true zero-copy tcp, which I understand requires the NIC and driver to support checksumming and scatter-gather IO, is it possible to and is there anything to be gained by eliminating copying between kernel and user space when sending and receiving over tcp? Is there any support for this in the kernel? Thanks Lee -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup - 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/