Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 5 Sep 2000 21:55:17 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: zero-copy TCP |
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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> [...] The point is that a write() is only used if some sort of > dynamic data is generated on the fly. > > There are exsiting applications out there that use mmap+write > (caching the maps), it would be nice for the authors of these not to > have to _require_ non-portable sendfile semantics for the best > performance.
this is not just an interface question, mmap()+write() is conceptually inferior to a sendfile(). [if the goal is to send the same data multiple times.]
Ingo
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