Hello--here's another question about splice(). I'm hoping to use it to copy files, and am trying to use two splice calls joined by a pipe like the example on splice's Wikipedia page. I wrote a simple test case which only tries to read the first 32K bytes from one file and write them to another: #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <fcntl.h> #in...
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? ...
The man page for the splice system call says that splice may fail and set errno to EINVAL if: Target file system doesn't support splicing; neither of the descriptors refers to a pipe; or offset given for non-seekable device Which file systems support splicing? ...
I would like to use splice to zero-copy data from STDIN_FILENO to a file descriptor (which could be to a regular file, char or block device, FIFO, or anything that can be opened with open). In order to use splice, either the from file descriptor or to file descriptor must be the appropriate end of a pipe, so generally a pipe is created t...
Reading through the man page of the Linux system call sendfile, I am wondering whether it is possible for the calling program to know when in_fd is at EOF. Presumably, this could be signaled by a return value of 0, but this leads to the question of what a return value of 0 actually means. If sendfile is like write, then a return value of...
xpost from linuxquestions.org, sorry... I wrote a small test program to see if a simple proxy would benefit from using splice() but it always takes 200ms for the data that I spliced from a pipe to a TCP socket to be read from the other end of the socket. Here is the Perl program to test it: package test_pipes_2; use strict; use warnin...