From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 15:22:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 15:22:36 -0500 Received: from minus.inr.ac.ru ([193.233.7.97]:2823 "HELO ms2.inr.ac.ru") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 15:22:25 -0500 From: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru Message-Id: <200101202022.XAA05556@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Is sendfile all that sexy? (fwd)]] To: torvalds@transmeta.COM (Linus Torvalds) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 23:22:14 +0300 (MSK) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: from "Linus Torvalds" at Jan 20, 1 10:45:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello! > > write(100000*MSS) > > write(1) > > write(1) ... > As far as I can tell, the second "write(1)" will always merge with the > first one This would be true, if Andrea wrote not exactly 100000*MSS, but 100000*MSS+1 or just write(). In some exceptional situations (sort of writing exactly N*MSS, then remnant, then something) Minshall's and bsd coalescing are a bit different. Alexey - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/