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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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  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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