On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:20:27AM -0700, David S. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> > Btw, how is it supposed to work without header split capabale hardware?
>
> I do not see header splitting as a requirement, let the raw
> headers sit in the user queue and provide an offset to the data.
> All of this page alignment stuff is unnecessary complexity.
>
> I know you think applications are too dumb to be expected to handle
> these kinds of things, but how many apps do you expect to convert over
> to these new interfaces?
>
> The ones that matter will, and great care will be made by the
> programmer who does this.
Ugh, so it will not ring buffer of data _flow_, but ring buffer of
(header+data) packets.
Definitely, userspace application must be very smart to deal with
ip/tcp/option headers...
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Evgeniy Polyakov
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