From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:12:21 +0400
> If there is dataflow, not flow of packets or flow of data with holes, > it could be possible to modify recv() to just return the right pointer, > so in theory userspace modifications would be minimal. > With copy in place it completely does not differ from current design > with copy_to_user() being used since memcpy() is just slightly faster > than copy*user(). I very much feel that avoiding userland API changes is a complete mistake. We need new interfaces to do this right. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html