On Thu, Mar 30 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Jens Axboe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > This patch should resolve all issues mentioned so far. I'd still like
> > to implement the page moving, but that should just be a separate
> > patch.
>
> neat stuff. One question: why do we require fdin or fdout to be a pipe?
> Is there any fundamental problem with implementing what Larry's original
> paper described too: straight pagecache -> socket transfers? Without a
> pipe intermediary forced inbetween. It only adds unnecessary overhead.
No, not a fundamental problem. I think I even hid that in some comment
in there, at least if it's decipharable by someone else than myself...
Basically I think it would be nice in the future to tidy this a little
bit and separate the actual container from the pipe itself - and have
the pipe just fill/use the same container.
--
Jens Axboe
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