pipe mode and sendfile?

[Per Buer]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Martin Blix Grydeland <
martin at varnish-software.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 at 16:35 Nils Goroll <slink at schokola.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> is there a particular reason for pipe mode not using sendfile half the
>> number of
>> syscalls required and avoid copying to/from a userspace buffer?
>>
>
> sendfile() requires the in_fd to be an fd supporting mmap-like operations,
> ie no network sockets.
>

How about TCP Splicing? Shouldn't we be able to do that? If I'm not
mistaken HA-Proxy used TCP Splicing for quite some time to avoid read/write
copying to userspace.


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