>>>>> "Andi" == Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> writes:
Andi> I don't know if they do. The only Unix I'm aware of that has zero copy
Andi> sendmsg() is NetBSD and their focus does not seem to be SMP
scalability.
NetBSD 1.6 is the first release with both zero-copy and SMP.
(1.6.1 came out two weeks ago)
So, the focus was on making it work.
I would not read any more intent to it yet. Jason Thorpe is pretty smart.
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