On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:34:13AM -0400, Pradeep Padala wrote:
> >>Would be really great if someone could give me a hint (or maybe even a
> >>little code example? ;)
> >
> >The best hint I can give is not to do such things in kernel in the
> >first place.
>
> Yes, In general it's true that these kind of things shouldn't be done in
> the kernel. But, one might want to do this to get better performance or
> just for experimenting. If Ingo thought this way, we wouldn't have had TUX.
Tux was a nice experiment, until somebody showed that you can get the
same performance from userspace by using sendfile(). The performance
argument no longer holds.
BTW, Jens, it would be nice if your email address actually worked.
Right now I get:
<no@xxxxxxxx>: host iris2.directnic.com[204.251.10.82] said:
550 5.7.1 No such recipient
I removed your address from the Cc list.
Erik
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