Zero-Copy Sockets
- Depends on MTUs a multiple of page size (plus room for protocol headers)
Also desire a messaging system which can separate protocol headers from payloads.
- Does not alter socket interface.
Well behaved applications will benefit.
- Implements concepts pioneered in previous research conducted on slower networks
Hsiao-King & Jerry Chu’s Zero-Copy TCP in Solaris, In the 1996 USENIX Technical Conference