sendfile(2) SF_NOPUSH flag proposal

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, 30 May 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Igor Sysoev wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 May 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > > It doesn't "read" it, per se: it creates a mapping, and it
> > > faults the pages; when they are in core, then they can be
> > > sent.
> > 
> > So what do these lines in /sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c:sendfile():
> > 
> > if (!pg->valid || !vm_page_is_valid(pg, pgoff, xfsize)) {
> >          ....
> >          error = VOP_READ(vp, &auio, IO_VMIO | ((MAXBSIZE / bsize) << 16),
> >                           p->p_ucred);
> >          ....
> > }
> 
> That's easy: they mean you aren't looking at version 1.147 of
> the file, and that you're looking at RELENG_4, and not -CURRENT
> (version 1.65.2.17, or earlier).  You are 82 HEAD revisions
> behind the state of the art.

Yes, I looked in FreeBSD 4.x. In the HEAD VOP_READ() was changed to:

    error = vn_rdwr(UIO_READ, vp, NULL, MAXBSIZE,
        trunc_page(off), UIO_NOCOPY, IO_NODELOCKED |
        IO_VMIO | ((MAXBSIZE / bsize) << 16),
        td->td_ucred, NOCRED, &resid, td);

What does vn_rdwr() ? Does it fault the page as you said or it reads pages ?


Igor Sysoev
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