Re: zero-copy read() interface

[Jörn Engel]

On Thu, 18 August 2005 16:34:18 -0700, dean gaudet wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> 
> > Doesn't that one also use copying? I've also heard that using mmap is
> > expensive due to pagefaulting. I've found, for example, that copying a
> > 1.3GB file using read/write instead of mmap & memcpy is seconds faster.
> 
> why would you memcpy if you're using mmap()?  just write() the mmap()d 
> region.

Still unnecessary.  Userspace doesn't want to see the data at all, so
it shouldn't.  The solution should either be sendfile(2), which Linus
doesn't like much, or the upcoming pipe stuff.

Jörn

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