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[Xen-users] Re: [Xen-devel] Question about using zero-copy for disk I/O

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Subject: [Xen-users] Re: [Xen-devel] Question about using zero-copy for disk I/O in Xen.
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:02:37 +0000
Cc: Liang Yang <multisyncfe991@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Hi,

To avoid cross posting (which some people don't like) I'm replying to this 
mail on the xen-devel list as it's a technical question.

Cheers,
Mark

On Monday 26 February 2007 23:17, Liang Yang wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an impression the zero-copy technology is frequently tied up with
> network I/O. Recently I found people in Xen community start talking
> zero-copy for disk I/O as well (e.g. scsi front-end/back-end driver and
> blktap in Xen). So is there any difference for zero-copy between disk I/O
> and network I/O? O_DIRECT can be used to eliminate the kernel buffer copy,
> isn't it counted as part of zero-copy for disk I/O?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Liang
>
>
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