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Re: Updated zerocopy patch up on kernel.org

To: mingo@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Updated zerocopy patch up on kernel.org
From: Andrew Morton <andrewm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 23:47:26 +1100
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
References: <200101100055.QAA07674@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101111137360.981-100000@e2>
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> > Nothing interesting or new, just merges up with the latest 2.4.1-pre1
> > patch from Linus.
> >
> > ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/zerocopy-2.4.1p1-1.diff.gz
> >
> > I haven't had any reports from anyone, which must mean that it is
> > working perfectly fine and adds no new bugs, testers are thus in
> > nirvana and thus have nothing to report.  :-)
> 
> (works like a charm here.)

For the record...

I've been running it since release on 2.4.0-UP/x86.  The
NIC is a 3c905B so we're doing scater/gather and hw
checksumming.  It does a lot of NFS client work
against a Netapp server.  rsize=wsize=8192.

I'm not using sendfile().

IOW: me too.

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