On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 04:53:23PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 16:54:24 -0700 > Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> wrote: > > > Every time I tried to push the page flip idea or offloading or any of > > that crap, Andy Bechtolsheim would tell "the CPUs will get faster faster > > than you can make that work". He was right. > > I really don't see why receive is so much of a big deal > compared to send, and we do a send side version of this > stuff already with zero problems. Hey, maybe it isn't, but could you please quantify the cost of the VM operations? How hard is that? -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - : 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
