hi, we are developing a protocol analyser. our application needs to capture 100 mbps full duplex traffic. we have the application in windows which does the same. we are now trying to port it to linux. we came up with a basic application that captures traffic. iam very happy to say that linux was able to capture 100 mbps full duplex traffic more ( a lot of mores :-) to be correct) efficiantly than windows. now that we are ready to port the application to linux, we are trying to find the best way to transfer data to the user space from kernel space. we tried normal blocking read and it works fine. but we dont want to waste cycle on transfering data to and fro kernel and user land. so we tried some other techniques like remaping the kernel land buffers to userland via mmap. that also works fine. now we have a doubt that, like maping kernal space buffers to user space, weather we will be able to map user space buffers to kernel space(so that we can write data directly from packet capture function(registered via dev_add_pack)) so can u guys point out weather that kind of approach will work and if so where do i start looking?. thanx, Mohan Kumar S Amoeba Telecom (visit us at www.amoebatel.com) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
