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Subject: Re: [PATCH] TCP Zero Copy for mmapped files
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Thomas Ogrisegg <tom@rhadamanthys.org>
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On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 00:45, Thomas Ogrisegg wrote:
> Unfortunately the linux-sendfile is not as good as the HP-UX
> one. Under HP-UX you can define a "struct iovec" header to
> be sent before the file is sent.

Thats a design decision. With TCP_CORK and sensible syscall performance
those kind of web specific hacks are not appropriate

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