Re: How to avoid data copies in a driver ?

Pavel Machek
2008-05-21T10:42:51Z

On Wed 2008-05-14 21:54:03, Francis Moreau wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to optimize my driver, which receives data through a fifo and gives
> them to a user space application. In turns this application moves this data
> into a file.
>
> To avoid several useless copies, I'd like the application to pass to the driver
> a file descriptor (?) to the driver and then the driver can directly move the
> received data to that file.
>
> Could anybody give me some example of such scheme ?

man splice?

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