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To: "Mike Durian" <durian@plutotech.com>
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Subject: Re: user vm addr to kernel vm addr 
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From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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>   In my virtual file system I'd like to speed up reads and writes
> by copying directly from the uio structure to a vm address of
> a buffer in the user process running on behalf of the filesystem.

uiomove() does this.

> I'm currently shoving all the data through a socket that the
> user process reads from and copies into a buffer.  I'd like to
> go direct and skip the socket writing part.  Does that make sense?

Yup.

mike