Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 31 Oct 2000 19:59:40 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks! |
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Hi!
> > TUX modules are kernel modules (I mean you have to write kernel space code for > > doing TUX ftp). Don't you agree that zero-copy sendfile like ftp serving would > > be able to perform equally well too? > > For this to bw useful for ftp we need a sendfile() that can write from a > socket to a diskfile also.
I had patch to fix sendfile this way... Sendfile is really ugly, as of now. (It basically falled back to read/write, giving only small performance advantage, but it made things cleaner).
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