Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Jan 2001 18:53:10 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1 |
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:38:30AM -0500, Benjamin C.R. LaHaise wrote: > What you're completely ignoring is that sendpages is lacking a huge amount > of functionality that is *needed*. I can't implement clean async io on > top of sendpages -- it'll require keeping 1 task around per outstanding > io, which is exactly the bottleneck we're trying to work around.
Yepp. That's why I proposed to ue rw_kiovec. Currently Alexy seems to have an own hack for socket-only asynch IO with some COW semantics for the userlevel buffers, but I would much prefer a generic version...
Christoph
P.S. Any chance to find a new version of your aio-patch somewhere? -- Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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