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Message-ID: <20070531122723.GT32105@kernel.dk>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 14:27:23 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cotte@...ibm.com, hugh@...itas.com,
zanussi@...ibm.com, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sendfile removal
On Thu, May 31 2007, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Thursday May 31, jens.axboe@...cle.com wrote:
> > On Thu, May 31 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 12:33:16PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > > - nfds: The ->rq_sendfile_ok optimization is gone for now. I can't
> > > > determine the value of it, but I'm assuming it's there for a reason.
> > > > Any chance this can be converted to splice, or use something else than
> > > > ->sendfile()? CC'ed Neil.
> > >
> > > sendfile useage in nfsd avoids a data copy and allows to use checksum
> > > offloading. it's quite important for nfs server workloads.
> >
> > OK, I hope Neil can provide some input on how to convert it. Of course
> > I'm just fishing for Neil to actually do that work :-)
>
> Well, seeing you did that zero-length-barrier thing for me, how can I
> complain :-)
>
> I'll have a look in the morning.
Woo, thanks Neil :-)
--
Jens Axboe
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