Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Jan 2001 00:05:01 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1 |
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On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Simple. Because I stated before that I DON'T even want the networking > to use kiobufs in lower layers. My whole argument is to pass a kiovec > into the fileop instead of a page, because it makes sense for other > drivers to use multiple pages, and doesn't hurt networking besides > the cost of one kiobuf (116k) and the processor cycles for creating > and destroying it once per sys_sendfile.
Fair enough.
My whole argument against that is that I think kiovec's are incredibly ugly, and the less I see of them in critical regions, the happier I am.
And that, I have to admit, is really mostly a matter of "taste".
De gustibus non disputandum.
Linus
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