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Date:      Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:25:25 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_socket.c
Message-ID:  <20051205122309.V43418@odysseus.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051205181614.V32154@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <200511281809.jASI93Rl006494@repoman.freebsd.org> <20051204233215.G43418@odysseus.silby.com> <20051205094734.P45634@fledge.watson.org> <20051205112600.O43418@odysseus.silby.com> <20051205181614.V32154@fledge.watson.org>

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On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Robert Watson wrote:

> The NFS server could could probably profitably, and fairly easily, be taught 
> how to do zero-copy from the buffer/page cache, btw.  Should be able to steal 
> code from sendfile(), although I've not looked in any detail.  Possibly also 
> the NFS client.
>
> Robert N M Watson

We also have the hackish zero-copy used by pipes as well - in the long run 
it would be nice to be able to merge these different zero-copy 
implementations somewhat.

Anyway, don't let my rambling get you sidetracked, I only intended to 
point out possible future improvements.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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