Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:34:38 -0700 | From | Nivedita Singhvi <> | Subject | Re: O_DIRECT sockets? (was [RESEND] tuning linux for high network performance?) |
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Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> I'm doing O_DIRECT read (from disk), so it needs to be user -> kernel, then. > > any chance of using O_DIRECT to the socket?
Hmm, I'm still not clear on why you cannot use sendfile()? I was not aware of any upper limit to the file size in order for sendfile() to be used? From what little I know, this is exactly the kind of situation that sendfile was intended to benefit.
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