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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Updated zerocopy patch up on kernel.org
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 20:33:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200101110433.UAA02297@pizda.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101111138540.981-100000@e2> (message from Ingo Molnar on Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:41:30 +0100 (CET))
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101111138540.981-100000@e2>

   Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:41:30 +0100 (CET)
   From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

   On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote:

   > I'm actually considering making the SG w/o hwcsum situation illegal.

   i believe it might still make some limited sense for normal sendmsg()
   and higher MTUs (or 8k NFS) - we could copy & checksum stuff into the
   ->tcp_page if SG is possible and thus the SG capability improves the VM.
   (because we can allocate at PAGE_SIZE granularity.)

Basically what your advocating for is to take advantage of SG-only
devices when we have full control of the page contents.

Sure this would work.

But honestly the real gain from SG-only devices would be (as you know)
the memory usage savings when sending a single static file object to
several thousand clients.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-11 12:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-10  1:23 Jeff Garzik
2001-01-10  0:55 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-10  1:20   ` David S. Miller
2001-01-11 10:41     ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-11  4:33       ` David S. Miller [this message]
2001-01-11 10:38   ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-11 12:47     ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-13  6:46     ` Anton Blanchard

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