Re: Zero Copy IO

2001-04-09 Thread Kai Makisara
. For certain other drivers such as SCSI Tape driver, which need to handle great deal of data transfer, it would seemed still be more advantageous to enable zero copy IO than copy_from_user() and copy_to_user () all the data. Other OS such as AIX and OS2 have kernel functions that Whether zero-co

Re: Zero Copy IO

2001-04-08 Thread Douglas Gilbert
great deal of data transfer, it would seemed still be more advantageous to enable zero copy IO than copy_from_user() and copy_to_user() all the data. Other OS such as AIX and OS2 have kernel functions that can be used to accomplish such a task. Has any ground work been done in Linux