Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:47:15 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kblob discussion. Message-ID: <20000619114715.G26801@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <46591.961439389@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 08:29:49PM %2B0200 References: <20000619111309.E26801@fw.wintelcom.net> <46591.961439389@critter.freebsd.dk>
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* Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> [000619 11:30] wrote: > In message <20000619111309.E26801@fw.wintelcom.net>, Alfred Perlstein 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. > > Can't we combine it with sendfile and call it "sendobject" instead ? Hmm, that's certainly possible, I can wrap the kblobsend syscall and not export it to userland and provide a sendobject facility that would automagically call the private kblobsend or sendfile depending on the descriptor passed in. I'll look into it. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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