Re: More performance for the TCP stack by using additional hardware chip on NIC

On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 13:29:14 +0300
Avi Kivity <[email protected]> wrote:

> TOEs can remove the data copy on receive. In some applications (notably
> storage), where the application does not touch most of the data, this is
> a significant advantage that cannot be achieved in a software-only
> solution.

You don't need to offload the TCP stack to make this case get
zero-copy behavior.
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