Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261491AbVDQUti (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:49:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261499AbVDQUmd (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:42:33 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-174.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.174]:33991 "EHLO cheetah.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261519AbVDQUmG (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:42:06 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 13:36:20 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Avi Kivity Cc: arjan@infradead.org, andihartmann@01019freenet.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: More performance for the TCP stack by using additional hardware chip on NIC Message-Id: <20050417133620.04b4698d.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <1113733753.15803.26.camel@avik.scalemp> References: <1113728880.17394.16.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1113733753.15803.26.camel@avik.scalemp> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 628 Lines: 15 On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 13:29:14 +0300 Avi Kivity wrote: > TOEs can remove the data copy on receive. In some applications (notably > storage), where the application does not touch most of the data, this is > a significant advantage that cannot be achieved in a software-only > solution. You don't need to offload the TCP stack to make this case get zero-copy behavior. - 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/