RE: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10

[Jonathan Earle]

> > What are "zerocopy patch set"s?
> 
> Basically, if you want to send something to the network, the 
> kernel has to
> copy your data to its memory space. It is an overhead and with these
> patches, the kernel doesn't has to do it. So it is faster. 
> Moreover, few
> ethernet cards are able to compute the ip checksum so linux 
> doesn't need
> anymore to do that.

Hmm.. so things like routing should be faster then?  What caveats should one
watch for (ie: what functionalities will not work as before - if any)?

Cheers!
Jon