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Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

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Subject: Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 02:34:52 -0800
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <200101081039.LAA30397@ns.caldera.de> (message from Christoph Hellwig on Mon, 8 Jan 2001 11:39:15 +0100)
References: <200101081039.LAA30397@ns.caldera.de>
Sender: owner-netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
   Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 11:39:15 +0100
   From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxx>

   don't you think the writepage file operation is rather hackish?

Not at all, it's simply direct sendfile support.  It does
not try to be any fancier than that.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@xxxxxxxxxx

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