Re: Linux Zero Copy

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Nagendra Singh Tomar wrote:
> Code walkthru of Linux 2.4.18 kernel reveals that we do copy from user 
> space for both linear and nonlinear skbuffs. What is this zerocopy thing 
> then ?

Take a look at the sendfile() system call.  There is no user space
data; it can do zerocopy from the page cache.

-- Jamie
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