From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:01:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:01:14 -0500 Received: from 00-a0-24-71-59-48.bconnected.net ([209.53.17.43]:26354 "HELO 00-a0-24-71-59-48.bconnected.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:01:04 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 14:44:37 -0800 (PST) From: Jonathan Walther To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Rick Jones , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Is sendfile all that sexy? (fwd)]] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- They have it because they heard Linux had it and they wanted to do well in the next round of Mindcraft-like benchmarks. (sendfile() that is) Jonathan On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > (I also had one person point out that BSD's have the notion of TCP_NOPUSH, > which does almost what TCP_CORK does under Linux, except it doesn't seem > to have the notion of uncorking - you can turn NOPUSH off, but apparently > it doesn't affect queued packets. This makes it even less clear why they > have the ugly sendfile) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOmYgVsK9HT/YfGeBAQGI7wP+OLEirJP8SEuBQuE5Rm8pMzsZxrLUI4Ei Ilk4T8B8ZoVBjHfftPpX47ra8ZcmJu+pQWRGleVCUtjfqQS6JUPTaLC2PSJRurer 5+6tB1BOzzD31W7eAoZTtcn1rQvhkG3agoXo5MWM4hVrqUoI5hv+L/qUiKlXqIyq dZD5e7aITDs= =OzuY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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/