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    SubjectRe: Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v6
    On Wed, May 30 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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    >
    > 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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