From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from free.fr (IDENT:riccardi@bastard [127.0.0.1]) by antoinette.inria.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA03685 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 15:39:04 +0200 Message-ID: <39B3A5F8.29C18EC1@free.fr> Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 15:39:04 +0200 From: Fabio Riccardi MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: zero copy IO project Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Hi, after having analyzed a bit the various souces of inefficiency in Linux (wrt a high end server), and having discarded what other people already seem to be working on, I'd like to enroll myself into a zero copy IO project, much like that of UVM, genie, io-lite, fbufs, etc. Is anybody aready working on this? Does anybody have ideas about it? Anybody interested in a discussion of pros and cons of such an architectural change to Linux? TIA, ciao, - Fabio -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/