Re: Fwd: load balancing

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 11:29:31AM +0000, Miguel Figueiredo Mascarenhas Sousa Filipe wrote:
> check out the new splice() and tee() syscalls on linux, they allow for
> zero-copy data movement...

I know. The part which gets easily forgotten is that sendfile() as
special purpose interface is not replaced by that -- since it can
directly interact with the VM cache, it can more intelligently decide
how to "lock" the affected memory range.

Joerg