nnrpd development

[Harald Welte]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:31:58AM +0100, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
> 
> ->  >- if you've got any complaints, let me know, maybe they'll get fixed
> -> Please consider adding sendfile(2) support.
> 
> what's wrong on mmap() and write() ?

If you use sendfile the right way on OS'es like Linux 2.4.x or recent 
freebsd, you will profit from the zero copy TCP send path in the network 
stack: the network interfaces' dma ring buffer descriptors are set up
to point directly into the page cache. 

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