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From: Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke@SerNet.DE>
To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: maximum buffer size for splice(2) tcp->pipe?
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:03:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1LN2Vu-00DluN-6Z@intern.SerNet.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <496DACBE.3030701@cosmosbay.com>

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On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:13:34AM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> for (;;) {
> 	struct pollfd pfd;
> 	pfd.fd = socket;
> 	pfd.events = POLLIN;
> 	if (poll(&pfd, 1, -1) != 1)
> 		continue;
> 	res = splice(socket, NULL, pipefds[1], NULL, 65536, SPLICE_F_MOVE|SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK);
> 	if (res > 0)
> 		nwritten = splice(pipefds[0], NULL, file_fd, NULL, res, SPLICE_F_MOVE|SPLICE_F_MORE);
> }

Doesn't this reduce performance again? I thought the whole
point of splice() was to increase performance by avoiding
memory copies. If I have to do a poll syscall for each call
to splice, doesn't the context switch eat that performance
advantage again?

Or was splice designed only for multi-threaded applications
(which at least Samba is not)?

Volker

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-14  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-08 10:13 Volker Lendecke
2009-01-13 20:37 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-13 23:15   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-13 23:38     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-15  4:58       ` David Miller
2009-01-15 11:47         ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-14  7:40     ` Volker Lendecke
2009-01-14  9:13       ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-14 10:03         ` Volker Lendecke [this message]
2009-01-14 10:17           ` Eric Dumazet

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