Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

Pavel Machek
2000-10-31T20:05:31Z

Hi!

> > TUX modules are kernel modules (I mean you have to write kernel space code for
> > doing TUX ftp). Don't you agree that zero-copy sendfile like ftp serving would
> > be able to perform equally well too?
>
> For this to bw useful for ftp we need a sendfile() that can write from a
> socket to a diskfile also.

I had patch to fix sendfile this way... Sendfile is really ugly, as of
now. (It basically falled back to read/write, giving only small
performance advantage, but it made things cleaner).

Pavel
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