Re: {send,recv}mmsg patch.

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 10:34:52PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Linux has grown those two, and claim 20% performance improvement on some
> workloads. Some programs already use them, so we are going to need them
> for emulation anyway...
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/~christos/mmsg.diff

Can you provide some documentation for these calls?

ISTM that {send,recv}mmsg(), {read,write}v(), and AIO could be subsumed
by a general-purpose scatter-gather system call, and that might be a
good direction to go.

Dave

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