Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:00:55 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] splice support #2 |
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* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
> Hi, > > This patch should resolve all issues mentioned so far. I'd still like > to implement the page moving, but that should just be a separate > patch.
neat stuff. One question: why do we require fdin or fdout to be a pipe? Is there any fundamental problem with implementing what Larry's original paper described too: straight pagecache -> socket transfers? Without a pipe intermediary forced inbetween. It only adds unnecessary overhead.
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