Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

The implementation is > 7 years old, not used by default, and was
intended for a specific application. There really isn't much to say.

-Kip

On 4/30/06, Iantcho Vassilev <ianchov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello guys,


in bsdnews.com i found this link http://kerneltrap.org/node/6506 and
particulary this:

"I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots..
Playing games with VM is bad. memory copies are _also_ bad, but quite
frankly, memory copies often have _less_ downside than VM games, and bigger
caches will only continue to drive that point home."




What do you think about it?
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