zero_copy in RTEMS

[rudolph at jmicron.com (Lu Chih Wen)]

Hello all

 

I have an idea about the implementation of zero-copy on RTEMS's TCP/IP
stack.

The major concept about zero-copy is decrease the copy time of mbuf->m_data
to application's buffer,

So I try to allocate mbuf chain in application and swap the appended cluster
buffer between protocol

and application in socket layer. I have implemented in my test platform and
got a lot of increase of performance/

Was anyone did this before? I hope someone can point out more detail that I
should aware of .

 

RX sequence!

MAC HW fill driver's allocated mbuf->m_data(Cluster buffer ) -> TCP/IP ->
swap cluster buffer in socket layer --> return to Application.

TX sequence!

Application fill the data in mbuf->m_data(Cluster buffer ) -> Swap cluster
buffer in socket layer -> TCP/IP ---> MAC driver.

 

Yours sincerely

Rudolph.Lu

 

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