Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Sep 2004 17:21:18 +0200 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/4] copyfile: copyfile |
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On Tue, 7 September 2004 07:59:11 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Jörn Engel wrote: > > > > Does that mean that you're ok with the first three patches? > > No, it means that they weren't fundamentally flawed..
It's a start...
> Actually, the 4kB batching one was - if you only max out to using 4kB at a > time, sendfile() is kind of pointless, because then it will never do > multi-page copies in the first place, and all the complexity at a lower > level is worthless..
Give me a better number. 16k? 1M? Or would it not be fundamentally flawed if the unit was seconds, instead of bytes? That makes a lot more sense, since a floppy and a Ultra320 RAID array differ slightly in speed and it's response time the users actually care about.
Jörn
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