Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 May 2003 11:04:54 -0400 | From | Mark Mielke <> | Subject | Re: sendfile |
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On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 12:42:59AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <20030502210648.GA5322@mark.mielke.cc>, > Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc> wrote: > >One question it raises in my mind, is whether there would be value in > >improving write()/send() such that they detect that the userspace > >pointer refers entirely to mmap()'d file pages, and therefore no copy > >of data from userspace -> kernelspace should be performed. > You mean like > http://hypermail.idiosynkrasia.net/linux-kernel/archived/2003/week00/0056.html
Yes, definately, and thank you for referring us to work that has already been done.
mark
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