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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:11:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> TUX modules are kernel modules (I mean you have to write kernel space code for
> doing TUX ftp). Don't you agree that zero-copy sendfile like ftp serving would
> be able to perform equally well too?

For this to bw useful for ftp we need a sendfile() that can write from a
socket to a diskfile also.

-Dan

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