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Re: Early SPECWeb99 results on 2.5.33 with TSO on e1000

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Early SPECWeb99 results on 2.5.33 with TSO on e1000
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 23:53:00 +0100
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davem@xxxxxxxxxx said:
>    new system calls into the networking code
> The system calls would go into the VFS, sys_receivefile is not
> networking specific in any way shape or form. 

Er, surely the same goes for sys_sendfile? Why have a new system call 
rather than just swapping the 'in' and 'out' fds?

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