From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: mhz.dybf@gmail.com (mark zhu)
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 18:05:57 -0700
Subject: Using sendfile() between sockets
Message-ID: <522D1EF5.8000407@gmail.com>
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org

Hi there,

Two splice() system calls are needed for splicing 2 sockets.
It is costly with respect to context switching. What would be
the reason for_not_  letting sendfile() support socket-to-socket
splicing if the offset argument is ignored?

Thanks,
Mark