Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

Kip Macy kip.macy at gmail.com
Sun Apr 30 21:17:37 UTC 2006


The implementation is > 7 years old, not used by default,  and was
intended for a specific application. There really isn't much to say.

   -Kip

On 4/30/06, Iantcho Vassilev <ianchov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
>
> in bsdnews.com i found this link http://kerneltrap.org/node/6506 and
> particulary this:
>
> "I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.
> Playing games with VM is bad. memory copies are _also_ bad, but quite
> frankly, memory copies often have _less_ downside than VM games, and bigger
> caches will only continue to drive that point home."
>
>
>
>
> What do you think about it?
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