Re: Fwd: load balancing

["Jonas Trollvik" <jontro@xxxxxxxxx>]

sendfile is fs specific aswell. it doesnt work on smbfs etc which
seems quite weird.
-Jonas

On 11/2/06, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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