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Message-ID: <20090504094431.174745mb0jhhm3s4@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 09:44:31 -0400
From: Elad Lahav <elahav@...uwaterloo.ca>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc: Elad Lahav <elahav@...terloo.ca>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implementation of the sendgroup() system call
> My guess it's more the copies than the calls?
It's a factor of both. This is why we also created the sendgroup()
implementation that uses a tight loop of in-kernel calls to sendmsg()
as a means for evaluating the cost of mode switches. It is definitely
not negligible (exact numbers depend on the size of the group and the
size of the payload, of course).
> It sounds like you want sendfile() for UDP.
Do you mean by having a per-recipient sendfile() call for the same
file? Leaving the cost of the system call aside, this solution does
not work well with the kind of real-time data that we've been working
with (live streaming, online games). You would have to write the
payload to the file as it is being generated and call sendfile() after
each such write.
--Elad
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