Nagendra Singh Tomar wrote:
> Thanx for ur reply. So this means that this Zero Copy can only be
> used by senders who have to send data from a "file" that supports mmap. I
> just can't fill a buffer in userland and expect it to be sent via Zero
> Copy.
You can fill a buffer in userland and send it with zerocopy. To do
this, mmap() a file using PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE and MAP_FILE|MAP_SHARED.
Then you can write directly to the file's pages in memory, and use
sendfile() to send that data.
You only have to set up a mapping once; after that, for each thing you
want to transmit just choose a region in the mapped memory to prepare
your data in, and call sendfile() to send it.
Ideally, you would use a shared memory file ("man shm_open"), but I
understand that with kernels prior to 2.4.22, that doesn't work with
sendfile(), so you have to use a real file for older kernels than that.
Enjoy,
-- Jamie
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