> As far as i understand mmap/send, you'll have a copy operation in the
> kernel here. mmap shares the kernel and user buffer, but when sending the
> packet data is copied to the socket buffer!!??
Yes, there is a copy there.
> OK, but I understand that my streaming scenario is not the target
> application for sendfile.
What stops you from using sendfile (with TCP) to each destination separately,
with the client only reading from the pipe as needed (presumably with a number
of frames worth of buffer on the client side)?
Chris
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