Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Jan 2003 01:41:53 +0100 | From | "J.A. Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: TCP Zero Copy for mmapped files |
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On 2003.01.04 A.D.F. wrote: > FreeBSD 5.0 should already have a zero copy for mmapped files and > IMHO it would be worth to have it in Linux 2.6 too. > > It would also be very nice to be able to enable zero copy for mmapped files > by a config option. > > Many applications use mapped memory to serve lots of small and > medium sized files (4 - 1024 KB) or even a few big files > (think at web servers, i.e. Apache 2, etc.); this is done to better > serve multiple / parallel downloads being done on the same files. >
Apache2 uses mmap() to open files ?? So then there is a reason to include it in my patchset...
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