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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Steve Modica <modica@sgi.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Zero copy transmit
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 21:17:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030429211737.A9926@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EAED567.2090006@sgi.com>; from modica@sgi.com on Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 02:41:27PM -0500

On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 02:41:27PM -0500, Steve Modica wrote:
> At issue is really application capture and customer adoption.  There are
> tons of apps and lots of engineers that know socket operations and 
> write/writev.  Asking all ISVs to recode for linux would leave them with 
> two separate APIs to deal with. They would have send/sendto or 
> write/writev on Solaris, HPUX and whatever else, and linux would have 
> sendfile.

Solaris and HPUX have sendfile, the HPUX one has a slightly different
API, the Solaris one is modelled after Linux.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-29 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-29 18:44 Zero copy transmit Steve Modica
2003-04-29 19:20 ` Andi Kleen
2003-04-29 19:33   ` Robin Holt
2003-04-29 19:41     ` Andi Kleen
2003-04-29 19:41   ` Steve Modica
2003-04-29 19:59     ` Andi Kleen
2003-04-29 20:09       ` Steve Modica
2003-04-29 20:39         ` Andi Kleen
2003-04-30  1:41           ` Michael Richardson
2003-04-30 15:05           ` Robin Holt
2003-04-30 15:29             ` Andi Kleen
2003-04-29 20:17     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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