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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 19:59:40 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!
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Hi!

> > 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.

I had patch to fix sendfile this way... Sendfile is really ugly, as of
now. (It basically falled back to read/write, giving only small
performance advantage, but it made things cleaner).

								Pavel
-- 
I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org
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