Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 23:42:50 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: Kevin Hui <khui@cs.toronto.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Raw disk access in userland Message-ID: <200107050642.f656gox00974@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Jul 2001 21:12:33 MDT." <20010704211233.A48146@panzer.kdm.org>
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> On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 20:18:51 -0400, Kevin Hui wrote:
> > Then the question is whether the kernel is copying data between userspace
> > and kernelspace or whether it just DMAs the data straight in/out of the
> > user program's address space. In Linux raw-io, given that it is a block
> > device and you are doing page-aligned block I/Os on it, is smart and does
> > zero copies. While it may seem to be jumping through hoops, maybe it does
> > have a performance advantage?
>
> The kernel copies between userland and the kernel.
Er, no.
See sys/kern/kern_physio.c for the details.
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