Re: PATCH: Raw device IO for 2.1.131

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 12 Dec 1998 04:21:11 +0000 (GMT)

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> Finally, I'd put all this lock down pages stuff into a mm/*.c file.
> I want to use it for networking if it goes in (zero copy TCP, NFS
> directly into page cache, etc.).

Well for sendfile() it seems ideal for zero copying. I'd second it being in
mm/*.c - I want it for video capture

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