On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 08:04:20AM +0200, yaelgilad wrote: > > Why would you want to? Just grab the packets from userspace, and then > > send them to your driver from userspace. You can do blocking reads much > > easier that way, and don't have to worry about internal file handles, > > and getting the segment registers correct, and other such stuff. > > Wouldn't there be a performance penalty in this case ? If you are dealing with a 10Gb network, possibly. But please measure it first before saying it's a penalty, so you _have_ to do it all within the kernel. thanks, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
