cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_socket.c

Mike Silbersack silby at silby.com
Mon Dec 5 10:25:38 PST 2005


On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Robert Watson wrote:

> The NFS server could could probably profitably, and fairly easily, be taught 
> how to do zero-copy from the buffer/page cache, btw.  Should be able to steal 
> code from sendfile(), although I've not looked in any detail.  Possibly also 
> the NFS client.
>
> Robert N M Watson

We also have the hackish zero-copy used by pipes as well - in the long run 
it would be nice to be able to merge these different zero-copy 
implementations somewhat.

Anyway, don't let my rambling get you sidetracked, I only intended to 
point out possible future improvements.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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