In article <1031245128.3d778d48988c9@imap.linux.ibm.com> you wrote: > the sendmsg() case, the checksum is computed while doing > the copy operation. thats why it makes sence to have zerocopy with hw-checksum. there is only a marginal time needed for a copy+chksum, but it is totally wasted time on zero copy environment. Gruss Bernd - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html