Re: Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v6

[Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>]

On Wed, May 30 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

I do, this is a one year old patch that does that:

http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=f8f550e027fd07ad8d87110178803dc63b544d89

I'll update it, test, and submit for 2.6.23.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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