Linus - COW/vmsplice()

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Apr 22 17:41:21 UTC 2006


On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:52:00PM +0100, mal content wrote:
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/6506
> 
> Can anybody explain what he's going on about? I know a bit about
> VM but I'm no kernel hacker.

The thing to realise is that the piece of code he's calling FreeBSD
developers "incompetent" for (options ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS) is not
enabled by default for basically the very reasons he says.

Kris
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