In article <[email protected]>,
Mark Mielke <[email protected]> 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.
On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 12:42:59AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Mark Mielke <[email protected]> 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
Yes, definately, and thank you for referring us to work that has already
been done.
mark
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