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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Cc: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] A generic_file_sendpage()
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:49:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040610194926.GE4507@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1086783559.1194.24.camel@boxen>

Hi!

> The sendfile() for all file systems remain unusable as it is right now,
> only works for sending data to socket. But that should be as much performance
> enhancing as this yes?
> 
> Please hit me with cluebat for what I'm missing.
> (yes, rebooted between all copying)
> 

...this will also allow COW filesystems and copy-on-server...
It would be nice if it could go in soon, so userspace can
start using it and COW/copy-on-server can be usefull in 2.8...


				Pavel
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-10 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-08 15:44 downgrade_write replacement in remap_file_pages Andrea Arcangeli
2004-06-08 16:31 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-08 16:39   ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-08 17:05 ` David Howells
2004-06-08 22:33   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-06-08 19:04 ` David Howells
2004-06-08 19:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-08 22:52   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-06-09 12:19   ` [PATCH] A generic_file_sendpage() Alexander Nyberg
2004-06-10 19:49     ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2004-06-25 19:19     ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-25 19:46       ` viro
2004-06-25 20:03         ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-26  0:53           ` Trond Myklebust
2004-06-28 11:41             ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-25 20:05       ` Andreas Dilger
2004-06-25 20:09         ` Jörn Engel

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