>>>>> David S Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would have thought one of the main interests of doing > something like this would be to allow us to speed up large > writes to the socket for ncpfs/knfsd/nfs/smbfs/... > This is what TCP_CORK/MSG_MORE et al. are all for, things get > coalesced perfectly. Sending in a vector of pages seems nice, > but none of the page cache infrastructure works like this, all > of the core routines work on a page at a time. It actually > simplifies a lot. > The writepage interface optimizes large file writes to a socket > just fine. OK, but can you eventually generalize it to non-stream protocols (i.e. UDP)? After all, it doesn't make sense to differentiate between zero-copy on stream and non-stream sockets, and Linux NFS, at least, remains heavily UDP-oriented... Cheers, Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1 Jes Sorensen
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.... David S. Miller
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, ... Jes Sorensen
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking pat... Stephen Frost
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking... David S. Miller
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking pat... David S. Miller
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking... Ingo Molnar
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1 Trond Myklebust
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.... David S. Miller
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, ... Trond Myklebust
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking pat... David S. Miller
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking... Trond Myklebust
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1 Stephen Landamore
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.... Ingo Molnar
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, ... Andrew Morton
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, ... Dan Hollis
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking pat... David S. Miller
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking... Dan Hollis
- Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy netwo... Ingo Molnar