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Date:      Sun, 14 Mar 1999 14:24:37 +0100
From:      Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
To:        Rob Snow <rsnow@lgc.com>
Cc:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com>, Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Gigabit ethernet -- what am I doing wrong?
Message-ID:  <19990314142436.A1292@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
In-Reply-To: <001b01be6e10$08061120$03e48486@dympna.com>; from Rob Snow on Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 05:44:28AM -0600
References:  <001b01be6e10$08061120$03e48486@dympna.com>

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On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 05:44:28AM -0600, Rob Snow wrote:
> I'm looking at this wondering a couple of things.  How many mem copies take
> place in the IP stack before we're ready to transmit a frame?  My question
> is based around whether it's the NIC's or the IP stacks and PCI holding us
> back.  What would PCI-64@66 do for us with current stacks?

AFAIK "zero copy tcp/ip" went into 3.1 and 4.0. Thanks to David
Greenman who implemented and tested this on ftp.cdrom.com.
(I hope I got the credits right ;-)

-- 
Andreas Klemm                                http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas
     What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ?
          http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html
             "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs)      ``powered by FreeBSD SMP''


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