From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:10:46 +0300
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:49:08AM +0200, Zilvinas Valinskas wrote:
> Is this expected behaviour ? that sendfile(2) on 2.5.4x linux kernel requires
> socket as an output fd paramter ?
It has only been intended for output to a TCP stream socket.
To be honest, I'm not so sure about this.
For example, I definitely see us supporting this in the
opposite direction when commodity 10gbit hits the market.
Initially I thought "sys_receivefile()" but it makes no
sense when we have a system call that is perfectly capable
of describing the tcp_socket --> page_cache operation.
And I don't think the vfs copy operation using sendfile
is such a bad thing either. It definitely opens the door
for some interesting optimizations. For example, if the
source page is not mapped by a process it could be possible
to just unhash it, mark it dirty, then hash it into the
destination file. Exactly 2 I/O operations and the cpu
doesn't touch the data at all.
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