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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net, "Ciprian Dorin,
	Craciun" <ciprian.craciun@gmail.com>,
	linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Transforming stdin and stdout pair into a socket
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 00:07:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905120007.24881.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8e04b5820905110632q1a3b9ad4u49d4f3208d994755@mail.gmail.com>

>     I've seen socat, and I could use it as you described. My only
> objection to this solution is that there is an unneeded process in the
> middle that just pipes data around...
>
>    (Instead of socat, I think it would be more efficient to just write
> a simple application that uses the "new" Linux syscall "splice" that
> I've just found by mistake yesterday...)

In that case you need to fix socat to use splice() when available. I have a 
hard time believing socat adds measurable overhead, especially if you're 
already tunnelling over ssh.

Paul

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-11 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-10 18:19 [Qemu-devel] Transforming stdin and stdout pair into a socket Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
2009-05-11  8:03 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [Nbd] " Laurent Vivier
2009-05-11 13:28   ` Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
2009-05-11 12:02 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2009-05-11 13:32   ` Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
2009-05-11 19:31     ` [Nbd] " Wouter Verhelst
2009-05-11 23:07     ` Paul Brook [this message]
2009-05-12  2:24       ` Anthony Liguori

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