From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: "Pål Halvorsen" <paalh@ifi.uio.no>
Cc: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>, bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sendfile
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 18:31:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EB1A029.7080708@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.SOL.4.51.0305012303540.17001@fjorir.ifi.uio.no
Pål Halvorsen wrote:
> As far as i understand mmap/send, you'll have a copy operation in the
> kernel here. mmap shares the kernel and user buffer, but when sending the
> packet data is copied to the socket buffer!!??
Yes, there is a copy there.
> OK, but I understand that my streaming scenario is not the target
> application for sendfile.
What stops you from using sendfile (with TCP) to each destination separately,
with the client only reading from the pipe as needed (presumably with a number
of frames worth of buffer on the client side)?
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-01 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-30 14:28 sendfile Pål Halvorsen
2003-04-30 16:51 ` sendfile bert hubert
2003-04-30 19:12 ` sendfile Pål Halvorsen
2003-04-30 19:28 ` sendfile bert hubert
2003-04-30 21:57 ` sendfile Pål Halvorsen
2003-04-30 22:18 ` sendfile Mark Mielke
2003-04-30 22:34 ` sendfile Pål Halvorsen
2003-05-01 4:28 ` sendfile Mark Mielke
2003-05-01 15:25 ` sendfile Joseph Malicki
2003-05-01 21:17 ` sendfile Pål Halvorsen
2003-05-01 22:31 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2003-05-01 23:32 ` sendfile Ketil Froyn
2003-05-02 9:02 ` sendfile Bernd Eckenfels
2003-05-02 2:41 ` sendfile Mark Mielke
2003-05-02 4:19 ` sendfile Chris Friesen
2003-05-02 21:06 ` sendfile Mark Mielke
2003-05-03 0:42 ` sendfile Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-05-03 15:04 ` sendfile Mark Mielke
2003-05-03 12:52 ` sendfile Pål Halvorsen
2003-05-03 21:01 ` sendfile Pål Halvorsen
2003-05-04 0:53 ` sendfile Miquel van Smoorenburg
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2001-05-24 8:44 sendfile Pål Halvorsen
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