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Subject: Re: [PATCH] TCP Zero Copy for mmapped files
From: Gianni Tedesco <gianni@ecsc.co.uk>
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On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 01:59, Alan Cox wrote:
> You may not be doing an mmap a send, its more likely to look like
>=20
> 	page =3D hash(url);
> 	memcpy(current_time, page->clock, TIMESIZE);
> 	write(sock, page->data, page->len);

If your web data rarely changes, it could also be all the files stored
in a hashfile database covered by one large mmap, eliminating filesystem
overhead (and vma overhead).

--=20
// Gianni Tedesco (gianni at scaramanga dot co dot uk)
lynx --source www.scaramanga.co.uk/gianni-at-ecsc.asc | gpg --import
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