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AssigneeVMware, Inc.
InventorsAlex Markuze, Chen Dar, Aran Bergman, Igor Golikov, Israel Cidon, Eyal Zohar
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Some embodiments provide a novel method for sharing data between user-space processes and kernel-space processes without copying the data. The method dedicates, by a driver of a network interface controller (NIC), a memory address space for a user-space process. The method allocates a virtual region of the memory address space for zero-copy operations. The method maps the virtual region to a memory address space of the kernel. The method allows access to the virtual region by both the user-space process and a kernel-space process.
A method of sharing data between user-space processes and kernel-space processes without copying the data, the method comprising:
A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program which when executed by at least one processing unit implements sharing of data between user-space processes and kernel-space processes without copying the data, the program comprising sets of instructions for:
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