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We're benchmarking some code that we've converted to use sendfile(), the linux zero-copy system call. What's the term for the traditional read()/write() loop that sendfile() replaces? I.e., in our report I want to say "zerocopy is X millisecs, and ??? is Y millisecs." What word/phrase should I use?

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"Traditional data copying approach"

zaf
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Programmed I/O (PIO) would be appropriate, I think.

tzaman
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Just "copy"?......

Ollie Saunders