Re: Copying user <---> kernel

2001-03-13 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 19:41:50 -0600, Rohit Rakshe wrote: > Hello, > > I am sure people have thought about this one, but just that I could not > find any discussions about it: > > Consider a server which receives data over network, does some operations > on the data and sends it back over the

Copying user <---> kernel

2001-03-13 Thread Rohit Rakshe
Hello, I am sure people have thought about this one, but just that I could not find any discussions about it: Consider a server which receives data over network, does some operations on the data and sends it back over the network. The kernel could spent most of its time copying data to and from