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Date:      20 Jun 2000 14:28:38 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kblob discussion.
Message-ID:  <xzpk8fktu2x.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Alfred Perlstein's message of "Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:13:09 -0700"
References:  <20000619111309.E26801@fw.wintelcom.net>

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Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> writes:
> oops, you can find the preliminary kblob diffs over here:
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/kblob/kblob-final.diff
> 
> It's a new syscall, less overhead than sendfile and useful for
> serving small chunks of data very quickly.

Do kblobs do anything that can't be easily done with sendfile() by
mmapping suitably large chunks of /dev/null?

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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