--- "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote: > From: sai narasimhamurthy <sai_narasi@yahoo.com> > Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 20:11:02 -0700 (PDT) > > SInce the reciever does not have to do the > checksum > processing(for checksum set to 0 at the > transmitter), > doesnt there need to be some performance > improvemnets > at the reciever side. > > The receiver still has to copy the data into > userspace, > and we defer the checksum calculation to that time > as > well. There is zero gain from purely turning off > checksumming, the copy is still there on both sides. I think this feature(this integrated copy checksum) is not present in older kernels of linux and many flavours of Unix ? Am I right?? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com - : 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
