Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 May 2007 21:32:27 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v6 |
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On Wed, May 30 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 May 2007, Mark Lord wrote: > > > > I wonder how useful it would be to reimplement sendfile() > > using splice(), either in glibc or inside the kernel itself? > > I'd like that, if only because right now we have two separate paths that > kind of do the same thing, and splice really is the only one that is > generic. > > I thought Jens even had some experimental patches for it. It might be > worth to "just do it" - there's some internal overhead, but on the other > hand, it's also likely the best way to make sure any issues get sorted > out.
I do, this is a one year old patch that does that:
http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=f8f550e027fd07ad8d87110178803dc63b544d89
I'll update it, test, and submit for 2.6.23.
-- Jens Axboe
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