From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:31:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:31:25 -0500 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:39302 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:31:10 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:13:52 -0800 Message-Id: <200101092113.NAA05515@pizda.ninka.net> From: "David S. Miller" To: sct@redhat.com CC: mingo@elte.hu, hch@caldera.de, riel@conectiva.com.br, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sct@redhat.com In-Reply-To: <20010109142542.G4284@redhat.com> (sct@redhat.com) Subject: Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1 In-Reply-To: <20010109122810.A3115@caldera.de> <20010109142542.G4284@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 14:25:42 +0000 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Perhaps tcp can merge internal 4K requests, but if you're doing udp jumbograms (or STP or VIA), you do need an interface which can give the networking stack more than one page at once. All network protocols can use the current interface and get the result you are after, see MSG_MORE. TCP isn't "special" in this regard. Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/