From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jun 20 5:28:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 643BD37B6FD for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 05:28:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA72744; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:28:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kblob discussion. References: <20000619111309.E26801@fw.wintelcom.net> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 20 Jun 2000 14:28:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: Alfred Perlstein's message of "Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:13:09 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein writes: > oops, you can find the preliminary kblob diffs over here: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/kblob/kblob-final.diff > > It's a new syscall, less overhead than sendfile and useful for > serving small chunks of data very quickly. Do kblobs do anything that can't be easily done with sendfile() by mmapping suitably large chunks of /dev/null? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message