Hello! On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 01:15:27AM +0300, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
> 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. Not really, as stream is able to do SSL encoding and decoding. -- Maxim Dounin http://nginx.org/ _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
