>"Zero copy" usually means "zero unnecessary copies"; but >what someone thinks of as "necessary" is really based on >their bias towards an existing implementation.
"zero copy" these days has come to mean no copies that involve the CPU. In my experiance, raw memory bandwidth to DMA packets to/from main memory is not the bottleneck on modern hardware. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com President, Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
