Re: Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v6

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 30 May 2007, Mark Lord wrote:
>
> I wonder how useful it would be to reimplement sendfile()
> using splice(), either in glibc or inside the kernel itself?

I'd like that, if only because right now we have two separate paths that 
kind of do the same thing, and splice really is the only one that is 
generic.

I thought Jens even had some experimental patches for it. It might be 
worth to "just do it" - there's some internal overhead, but on the other 
hand, it's also likely the best way to make sure any issues get sorted 
out.

		Linus
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