On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 05:16:41PM +0200, René Rebe wrote: > Hey there, > > maybe instead of this rather specific, niche readfile syscall, would it not > be beneficial > to allow issuing any group or bundle of several arbitrary system calls so > this could also > be used to speed up other, more demanding high performance applications that > need > a bit more than just readfile()?
Why not just use io_uring for that for I/O calls, that's what it is designed for. More "generic" syscall batching always ends up falling down in complexity anytime anyone tries it. Good luck! greg k-h
