Re: Sendfile implementation details

2006-01-31 Thread Chase Douglas
David S. Miller wrote: From: Chase Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:55:21 -0500 I have a question about the implementation of sendfile. In my current configuration of a server, when requests are made for a file, a new thread is spawned and sendfile is cal

Re: Seekable Sockets

2005-07-11 Thread Chase Douglas
David S. Miller wrote: >From: Chase Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:33:46 -0500 > > > >>I'm sorry, I made a careless mistake in choice of context. What this would >>be useful for is applications where we want to seek ahead in one str

Re: Seekable Sockets

2005-07-11 Thread Chase Douglas
On 7/8/05 4:46 PM, "David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Chase Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:12:12 -0500 > >> This can be useful for programs such as mpi. In mpi, a server receives >> results of computatio

Seekable Sockets

2005-07-08 Thread Chase Douglas
I've been working on the implementation for seekable sockets in tcp. A patch of my work so far is attached. I believe that it works correctly excepting a bug in tcp_collapse_seekable, which has been disabled in tcp_prune_queue to prevent it from arising at the moment. What this patch creates is a