ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS

Joshua Coombs jcoombs at gwi.net
Tue Dec 6 04:40:34 PST 2005


"Igor Robul" <igorr at speechpro.com> wrote in message 
news:20051206063134.GA57230 at sysadm.stc...
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:20:28PM -0500, Joshua Coombs wrote:
>> #options                ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS
>>
>> What's the status of this in 6.0-R and 6-stable?  The idea of 
>> avoiding
>> memory copies when possible seems really appealing for my 386, on
>> which any little boost is significant. : )
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/relnotes-i386.html#KERNEL
>
> So you can't use FreeBSD-6.0 and greater on 80386 anymore.

Ok, lemmie just point out that I'm already running 6.0, just to 
eliminate that issue.

What I'm curious about is weather or not 6.0R's zero copy sockets are 
considered stable or not.

Joshua Coombs




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