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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

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