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This is really old but the article mentions splice() and here's the original thinking on that syscall. Linux didn't take all the ideas but they took some: htt
by luckydude 11y ago
This is really old but the article mentions splice() and here's the original thinking on that syscall. Linux didn't take all the ideas but they took some:
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/bitmover/lm/papers/splice.pdf http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/bitmover/lm/papers/splice.pdf
- joveian 11y agoOr even earlier there is "Exploiting In-Kernel Data Paths to Improve I/O Throughput and CPU Availability" by Fall and Pasquale: https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~pasquale/Research/Papers/usenix93.pdf https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~pasquale/Research/Papers/usenix93.p...