Re: storage over IP (was Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networkingpatch, 2.4.0-1)

[David S. Miller]

   Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 19:18:53 -0800 (PST)
   From: dean gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

   - NIC DMAs packet to memory
   - CPU reads headers from memory, figures out it's NFS
   - CPU copies data bytes from packet image in memory to pagecache

Yes, this is precisely what happens in the NFS client with
the zerocopy patches applied.

Later,
David S. Miller
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