From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP Zero Copy for mmapped files
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 01:41:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030104004153.GA16238@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E161DFD.AB8D25AE@tin.it>; from adefacc@tin.it on Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 00:34:21 +0100
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-04 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-03 23:34 TCP Zero Copy for mmapped files A.D.F.
2003-01-04 0:41 ` J.A. Magallon [this message]
2003-01-04 1:53 ` dean gaudet
2003-01-04 13:10 ` A.D.F.
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