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Re: Fwd: load balancing


From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:56:40 +0100
Mail-followup-to: users@crater.dragonflybsd.org

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



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