Re: Mark Russinovich's reponse Was: [OT] Comments to WinNT Mag !! (fwd)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 5 May 1999 00:52:50 +0100 (BST)

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> Most of this would suggest that their existing architecture passes
> mbuf-chain-like buffers to the networking drivers in NT, or some other
> kind of scatter-gather list like scheme. This is the only way they
> could do zero-copy without driver updates from all the networking card
> vendors.

They do exactly that. If you are curious get the NDIS SDK. It is very close
to BSD mbufs with a vaguely streams like stacking setup.

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