Re: Idea to make a kickass TCP read!

[Olivier Galibert]

On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 01:52:16PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Why couldn't we at least mmap the skbuffs?  
> 
> By the time you've done the required TLB flushes on an SMP box at least
> a copy would have been cheaper. You can do ring buffers mapped into user
> space stuff - U-Net does exactly that. Its a recognition that sometimes
> ultralow latencies require specialist interfaces

Virtual Interface Architecture seems  to be a  nice one.  At least the
spec is promising.

  http://www.viarch.org/

I wonder  if such  an interface  can be  implemented with the  current
driver structure.  Probably, but alignment problems will suck.

  OG.