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Date:      Sun, 02 Dec 2001 10:39:43 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
To:        David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Cc:        rsharpe@ns.aus.com, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Patch #3 (TCP / Linux / Performance) 
Message-ID:  <200112021739.fB2HdhY23671@aslan.scsiguy.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Dec 2001 05:18:54 PST." <20011202051854.A7713@nexus.root.com> 

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>>Does the FreeBSD tcp stack do zero copy (page flip the data to 
>>userspace)? In the localhost case, it seems like there are two copies 
>>to/from userspace there.
>
>   It has the ability to do it via sendfile() and a few other mechanisms, but
>not as a normal part of typical read()/write().

Ahh, but there are patches floating around that do support zero-copy.
Just ask Ken Merry and Drew Gallatin.  I don't think they've been integrated
due to lack of testing time, but they've existed for 2 or so years now.

--
Justin

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