Fwd: load balancing

[Miguel Figueiredo Mascarenhas Sousa Filipe]

Hi,

On 11/2/06, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 11:29:31AM +0000, Miguel Figueiredo Mascarenhas Sousa Filipe wrote:
> check out the new splice() and tee() syscalls on linux, they allow for
> zero-copy data movement...
I know. The part which gets easily forgotten is that sendfile() as
special purpose interface is not replaced by that -- since it can
directly interact with the VM cache, it can more intelligently decide
how to "lock" the affected memory range.
that's okay, I just pointed out to a concept that seemed related to
what you guys were talking about.. a "generic zero-copy syscall  that
does for any file descriptor instead of just for file -> socket" .. or
has "corecode" said: sendfile for sockets... :)
something like that...