Re: sendfile
Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron-office.nl)
Sat, 3 May 2003 00:42:59 +0000 (UTC)
In article <20030502210648.GA5322@mark.mielke.cc>,
Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc> wrote:
>One question it raises in my mind, is whether there would be value in
>improving write()/send() such that they detect that the userspace
>pointer refers entirely to mmap()'d file pages, and therefore no copy
>of data from userspace -> kernelspace should be performed.
You mean like
http://hypermail.idiosynkrasia.net/linux-kernel/archived/2003/week00/0056.html
Mike.
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