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Re: TCP IP Offloading Interface

To: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: TCP IP Offloading Interface
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 12:49:59 -0400
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Alan Cox wrote:
Finally if you are streaming objects by non mapped references (eg
sendfile or see LM's paper from long ago on splice()) then the problem
goes away.


I had forgotten all about splice.

For interested readers, here is the link:
http://www.bitmover.com/lm/papers/splice.ps

        Jeff




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