In article <20120608173711.gm20...@pixotech.com>, David Young <dyo...@pobox.com> wrote: >On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 10:34:52PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Linux has grown those two, and claim 20% performance improvement on some >> workloads. Some programs already use them, so we are going to need them >> for emulation anyway... >> >> http://www.netbsd.org/~christos/mmsg.diff > >Can you provide some documentation for these calls?
http://www.netbsd.org/~christos/mmsg-libc.diff >ISTM that {send,recv}mmsg(), {read,write}v(), and AIO could be subsumed >by a general-purpose scatter-gather system call, and that might be a >good direction to go. Well, it is not exactly a nice and clean API they propose. Plus the timeout implementation is hackish in linux (and us now)... christos
