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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Cc: Viral Mehta <Viral.Mehta@lntinfotech.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: zero copy for relay server
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:13:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1301408017.3161.154.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=GYxOP19HwdD0X33hX-Ku12oxwcX5=-okC9Let@mail.gmail.com>

Le mardi 29 mars 2011 à 19:28 +0800, Changli Gao a écrit :

> It is a waste of fd using pipe buffer with two fds. In fact, I had
> ever posted a patch, which extends pipe(2) to return a O_RDWR fd when
> NULL is passed in.
> 

Oh well, one extra fd is less than 256 bytes.

Adding a syscall means you force users to have latest kernel.

All this is hypothetical, nobody gave performance numbers demonstrating
splice()/splice() is slow enough we have to optimize it and add kernel
bloat...




      reply	other threads:[~2011-03-29 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-28 16:27 zero copy for relay server Viral Mehta
2011-03-28 16:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-28 18:18   ` Viral Mehta
2011-03-28 18:34     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-29  2:00       ` Changli Gao
2011-03-29  4:23         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-29 11:28           ` Changli Gao
2011-03-29 14:13             ` Eric Dumazet [this message]

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