Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:20:20 +0100 | From | bert hubert <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [DISCUSS] Optimizing linux applications with the help of the kernel. |
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On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 02:06:49AM -0800, Amit Choudhary wrote: > In both these cases the same data is coming from kernel_to_user and then from user_to_kernel. If > this can be short-circuited, that is, from kernel_to_kernel then the performance can be increased > a lot.
Google on 'splice linux'. It can't do what you want right now exactly, but it might.
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