Re: Data corruption issue with splice() on 2.6.27.10

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Wed Jan 07 2009 - 08:01:58 EST


On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 02:00:31PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>
> that's what I was initially wondering about, but it looks like only linear
> data is copied. Will that cause too much a overhead ? (I don't like copying

For splicing from socket to socket or socket to file, all the
data will be linear with most drivers.

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