Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:49:23 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Is sendfile all that sexy? |
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On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > There is a Samba patch as well that makes it sendfile() based. Various > > other projects use it too (phttpd for example), some FTP servers i > > believe, and khttpd and TUX. > > At least khttpd uses "do_generic_file_read()", not sendfile per se. I > assume TUX does too. Sendfile itself is mainly only useful from user > space..
yes, you are right. TUX does it mainly to avoid some of the user-space interfacing overhead present in sys_sendfile(), and to be able to control packet boundaries. (ie. to have or not have the MSG_MORE flag). So TUX is using its own sock_send_actor and own read_descriptor.
Ingo
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