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From: Gianni Tedesco <gianni@ecsc.co.uk>
To: Stanley Yee <SYee@snapappliance.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sendfile support in linux
Date: 28 Jan 2003 09:32:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1043746326.6975.93.camel@lemsip> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <057889C7F1E5D61193620002A537E8690B4387@NCBDC>

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On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 01:45, Stanley Yee wrote:
> I'm trying to find out more about sendfile(2).  So far, from what I've
> gathered, it sounds like the requirements for it are (please correct me if
> I'm wrong):
> 
> 1.  A kernel with sendfile support (i.e. 2.4.X)
> 2.  A network card capable of doing the TCP checksum in the hardware
> 3.  The application must support sendfile 

Those are the user requirements yes. Of course the programmer only needs
to assume (1) to start writing applications. Oh and its probably worth
mentioning:

 4. You can't do zero-copy receive.

> Do you know what applications support zerocopy (sendfile)?  I noticed that a
> zerocopy NFS patch was added to the 2.5.x tree.  Does the 2.4.X NFS daemon
> support zerocopy?  Does samba support zerocopy and if so what version?

Samba, tux2, apache?, all the big stuff.

Dunno about NFS.

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-28  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-28  1:45 sendfile support in linux Stanley Yee
2003-01-28  9:32 ` Gianni Tedesco [this message]
2003-01-28 13:16 ` jlnance
2003-01-28 17:22 ` Oliver Xymoron

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