Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270278AbTGMQfc (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2003 12:35:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270275AbTGMQfc (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2003 12:35:32 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:28082 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270273AbTGMQf0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2003 12:35:26 -0400 Message-ID: <3F118DB7.5060009@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 12:49:59 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Roland Dreier , "David S. Miller" , Alan Shih , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: TCP IP Offloading Interface References: <20030713004818.4f1895be.davem@redhat.com> <52u19qwg53.fsf@topspin.com> <1058113895.554.7.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1058113895.554.7.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 547 Lines: 20 Alan Cox wrote: > Finally if you are streaming objects by non mapped references (eg > sendfile or see LM's paper from long ago on splice()) then the problem > goes away. I had forgotten all about splice. For interested readers, here is the link: http://www.bitmover.com/lm/papers/splice.ps Jeff - 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/