On 12/9/15 2:54 PM, Valentin V. Bartenev wrote: > On Tuesday 08 December 2015 20:50:47 Aleksandar Lazic wrote: >> Dear developer. >> >> Do you know the splice() feature in Linux? >> >> https://lwn.net/Articles/178199/ >> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/splice.2.html >> http://ogris.de/howtos/splice.html >> >> How about to add it ;-) >> > [..] > > Of course we know about splice(). You can find some mentions of it > in the mailing list archive since 2006. > > The problem with this syscall is that it's not easy to implement, > while the performance benefits are questionable (AFAIK not all network > cards work well with splice()) and use cases are limited. > > It only can be useful for proxying big amounts of data without any > processing. But if you need compression, or TLS, or SSI, or even some > simple substitution, then splice() cannot be used. > It should fit in our stream quite nicely.
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