Re: Kernel read/write Blocksize
Glynn Clements <[email protected]>
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Neal Morrison wrote: > > > So my question is: Is the stacksize simular to the read/write size? > > > > What do you mean by "read/write size"? > > For example. I have to write an Server in C. And now I want to figure > out which is the best blocksize, relative to the kernel, I should read > from the socket. Is it easier for the kernel, when I read 4k blocks > from the networkbuffer or doesn't matter? > > I want to write the serverprogramm in relative to have the best > performance, so I think that is fundamental to know something about the > internel copy prozessing of the kernel. For networking, it doesn't matter. Block size is more relevant for disk I/O, particularly for memory mapped I/O (mmap() etc), and to a lesser extent for random access (lseek() etc). -- Glynn Clements <[email protected]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html