On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Stephen Frost wrote: > Now, the interesting bit here is that the processes can grow to be > pretty large (200M+, up as high as 500M, higher if we let it ;) ) and what > happens with MOSIX is that entire processes get sent over the wire to > other machines for work. MOSIX will also attempt to rebalance the load on > all of the machines in the cluster and whatnot so it can often be moving > processes back and forth. then you'll love the zerocopy patch :-) Just use sendfile() or specify MSG_NOCOPY to sendmsg(), and you'll see effective memory-to-card DMA-and-checksumming on cards that support it. the discussion with Stephen is about various device-to-device schemes. (which Mosix i dont think wants to use. Mosix wants to use memory to device zero-copy, right?) Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1 Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4... Ingo Molnar
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch,... Alan Cox
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch,... Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch,... Ingo Molnar
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch,... David S. Miller
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch,... Linus Torvalds
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch,... Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch,... Stephen Frost
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch,... Ingo Molnar
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch,... Stephen Frost
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch,... Dave Zarzycki
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch,... Ingo Molnar
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch,... David S. Miller
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch,... Dave Zarzycki
- storage over IP (was Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy netwo... dean gaudet
- Re: storage over IP (was Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zeroc... Alan Cox
- Re: storage over IP (was Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zeroc... David S. Miller
- Re: storage over IP (was Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Z... dean gaudet
- Re: storage over IP (was Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Z... David S. Miller