Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:05:13 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] splice support #2 |
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On Thu, Mar 30 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > This patch should resolve all issues mentioned so far. I'd still like > > to implement the page moving, but that should just be a separate > > patch. > > neat stuff. One question: why do we require fdin or fdout to be a pipe? > Is there any fundamental problem with implementing what Larry's original > paper described too: straight pagecache -> socket transfers? Without a > pipe intermediary forced inbetween. It only adds unnecessary overhead.
No, not a fundamental problem. I think I even hid that in some comment in there, at least if it's decipharable by someone else than myself... Basically I think it would be nice in the future to tidy this a little bit and separate the actual container from the pipe itself - and have the pipe just fill/use the same container.
-- Jens Axboe
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