From: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
To: Ion Badulescu <ionut@moisil.cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"netdev@oss.sgi.com" <netdev@oss.sgi.com>,
Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>
Subject: Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:45:29 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A72A6C9.7D085A39@uow.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A728475.34CF841@uow.edu.au> <200101271009.f0RA9fb04363@moisil.dev.hydraweb.com>
Ion Badulescu wrote:
>
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:19:01 +1100, Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au> wrote:
>
> > The figures I quoted for the no-hw-checksum case were still
> > using scatter/gather. That can be turned off as well and
> > it makes it a tiny bit quicker.
>
> Hmm. Are you sure the differences are not just noise?
I don't think so. It's all pretty repeatable.
> Unless you
> modified the zerocopy patch yourself, it won't use SG without
> checksums...
I believe it in fact does use SG when hardware tx checksums are unavailable,
but this capability wil be removed RSN because userspace can scribble
on the pagecache after the checksum has been calculated, and before
the frame has hit the wire.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-27 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-27 5:45 Andrew Morton
2001-01-27 6:20 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-01-27 8:19 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-27 10:09 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-01-27 10:45 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-01-30 6:00 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-30 12:44 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-30 12:52 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-30 14:58 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-30 17:49 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-01-30 22:17 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-31 0:31 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-01-31 0:45 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-30 22:28 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-30 23:34 ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-02 10:12 ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-02 12:14 ` Trond Myklebust
2001-02-02 17:51 ` David Lang
2001-02-02 22:46 ` David S. Miller
2001-02-02 22:57 ` David Lang
2001-02-03 2:27 ` James Sutherland
2001-02-02 23:09 ` David S. Miller
2001-02-02 23:13 ` David Lang
2001-02-02 23:28 ` Jeff Barrow
2001-02-02 23:31 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-27 10:05 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-01-27 10:39 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-27 12:49 ` jamal
2001-01-30 1:06 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-01-30 2:48 ` jamal
2001-01-30 3:26 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-01-31 0:53 ` Still not sexy! (Re: " jamal
2001-01-31 0:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-31 1:04 ` jamal
2001-01-31 1:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-31 1:39 ` jamal
2001-01-31 11:21 ` Malcolm Beattie
2001-01-31 11:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-31 1:10 ` Still not sexy! (Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to dowith ECN) Rick Jones
2001-01-31 1:45 ` jamal
2001-01-31 2:25 ` Still not sexy! (Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing todowith ECN) Rick Jones
2001-02-04 19:48 ` jamal
2001-02-05 18:51 ` Rick Jones
2001-02-05 5:13 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-27 12:43 ` sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN) jamal
2001-01-27 13:29 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-27 14:15 ` jamal
2001-01-28 16:05 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-29 18:50 ` Rick Jones
[not found] ` <200101271854.VAA02845@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
2001-01-28 5:34 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-28 13:37 ` Felix von Leitner
2001-01-28 14:11 ` Dan Hollis
2001-01-28 14:27 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-29 21:50 ` Pavel Machek
2001-01-28 19:43 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-01-28 19:48 ` Choosing Linux NICs (was: Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)) Felix von Leitner
2001-01-29 16:16 sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN) Jonathan Earle
2001-01-29 16:34 ` Antonin Kral
2001-01-31 1:49 Bernd Eckenfels
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