We consider measure-preserving diffeomorphisms of the torus with zero entropy. We prove that every ergodic $C^{1}$-diffeomorphism with linear growth of the derivative is algebraically conjugate to a skew product of an irrational rotation on the circle and a circle $C^{1}$-cocycle. We also show that for no positive β ≠ 1 does there exist an ergodic $C^{2}$-diffeomorphism whose derivative has polynomial growth with degree β.