Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:54:47 +0200 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, marcs@znep.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendfile() API? Message-ID: <24718.903524087@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Aug 1998 11:18:09 %2B0200" References: <19980819111809.A22887@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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> Who cares about data copy overhead? If the kernel spend 5% of the CPU > time in copying, there are still 95% free CPU cycles. Quite a few people care about copy overhead, actually. Read Larry McVoy's splice paper to see why: http://www.bitmover.com/lm/papers/splice.ps.gz Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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