johnisgood parent
On BSDs probably not, as they don't have splice, but that is good to know. I wonder if on BSDs it really is readv() and writev() that are the fastest way to achieve the same thing as has been done in the article. Maybe I am missing something. I would like to be corrected.
AFAIK, neither OpenBSD nor NetBSD has sendfile. On FreeBSD, I think you're correct regarding it being file-to-socket only.
Indeed, if I'm not mistaken Netflix at least used to use (and commit to kernel) FreeBSD on content servers because of its superior sendfile performance
Not only that, but they even contributed patches to allow the FreeBSD kernel to handle the TLS part of SSL_sendfile as well[1].