From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: Early SPECWeb99 results on 2.5.33 with TSO on e1000 Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 23:53:00 +0100 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <12116.1032216780@redhat.com> References: <20020916.142931.126209536.davem@redhat.com> <20020916.125211.82482173.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, todd-lkml@osogrande.com, hadi@cyberus.ca, tcw@tempest.prismnet.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com, pfeather@cs.unm.edu Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20020916.142931.126209536.davem@redhat.com> To: "David S. Miller" Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org davem@redhat.com said: > new system calls into the networking code > The system calls would go into the VFS, sys_receivefile is not > networking specific in any way shape or form. Er, surely the same goes for sys_sendfile? Why have a new system call rather than just swapping the 'in' and 'out' fds? -- dwmw2