On Thu, Jul 27 2006, David Miller wrote: > From: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:29:24 +0200 > > > Precisely. And this is the bit that is currently still broken for > > splice-to-socket, since it gives that ack right after ->sendpage() has > > been called. But that's a known deficiency right now, I think Alexey is > > currently looking at that (as well as receive side support). > > That's right, I was discussing this with him just a few days ago. > > It's good to hear that he's looking at those patches you were working > on several months ago.
It is. I never ventured much into the networking part, just noted that as a current limitation with the ->sendpage() based approach. Basically we need to pass more info in, which also gets rid of the limitation of passing a single page at the time. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
