>Does the FreeBSD tcp stack do zero copy (page flip the data to 
>userspace)? In the localhost case, it seems like there are two copies 
>to/from userspace there.

   It has the ability to do it via sendfile() and a few other mechanisms, but
not as a normal part of typical read()/write().

-DG

David Greenman
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President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com
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