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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Rick Jones <raj@cup.hp.com>,
	Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Is sendfile all that sexy? (fwd)]]
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:14:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010118221411.H28276@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101182041240.1009-100000@elte.hu> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101181146190.18387-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101181146190.18387-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:52:33AM -0800

On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:52:33AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > i believe a network-conscious application should use MSG_MORE - that has
> > no system-call overhead.
> 
> I think Andrea was thinking more of the case of the anonymous IO
> generator, and having the "controller" program thgat keeps the socket
> always in CORK mode, but uses SIOCPUSH when it doesn't know what teh
> future access patterns will be. 

Yes. Your one is an example where TCP_CORK is necessary to make sure not to
send small packets and where instead MSG_MORE can't help.

> Basically, it could use SIOCPUSH whenever its request queue is empty,
> instead of uncorking (and re-corking when the next request comes in).

Exactly.

Andrea
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-01-18 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2001-01-17 19:27 ` [Fwd: [Fwd: Is sendfile all that sexy? (fwd)]] Linus Torvalds
2001-01-17 20:03   ` Rick Jones
2001-01-17 20:38     ` dean gaudet
2001-01-17 20:57       ` Rick Jones
2001-01-18 13:06         ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-18 14:57           ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-18 18:24           ` Rick Jones
2001-01-19  2:46         ` dean gaudet
2001-01-19  3:03           ` dean gaudet
2001-01-19 19:07           ` Rick Jones
2001-01-19 20:03             ` kuznet
2001-01-19 21:20               ` Rick Jones
2001-01-20 18:03                 ` kuznet
2001-01-22 18:44                   ` Rick Jones
2001-01-20 14:56           ` Kai Henningsen
2001-01-23  7:20             ` dean gaudet
2001-01-20 23:09           ` Lincoln Dale
2001-01-20 23:27             ` James Sutherland
2001-01-21  0:02               ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-01-18 12:56       ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-25 17:58         ` Jamie Lokier
2001-01-17 21:22     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-17 22:17       ` Rick Jones
2001-01-17 22:53         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-17 22:44           ` Jonathan Walther
2001-01-18 13:18           ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-18 16:49             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-18 17:32               ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-18 17:49               ` Zach Brown
2001-01-19  3:16                 ` dean gaudet
2001-01-19  3:56                   ` David Ford
2001-01-18 18:29               ` Rick Jones
2001-01-18 18:50                 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-18 19:38               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-18 19:43                 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-18 19:52                   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-18 20:11                     ` kuznet
2001-01-18 20:33                     ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-18 21:14                     ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-01-18 20:24                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-18 20:37                     ` kuznet
2001-01-18 21:04                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-19  0:27                         ` Olivier Galibert
2001-01-19  0:59                           ` Rick Jones
2001-01-19 17:52                         ` kuznet
2001-01-19 20:54                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-18 20:44                     ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-18 21:54                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-18 21:57                         ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-18 22:16                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-18 22:18                             ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-19 15:25                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-19 18:18                                 ` kuznet
2001-01-19 21:13                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-20 17:28                                     ` kuznet
2001-01-20 18:14                                       ` Abramo Bagnara
2001-01-20 18:23                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-20 19:05                                         ` kuznet
2001-01-20 19:30                                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-20 19:39                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-20 20:22                                               ` kuznet
2001-01-20 21:20                                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-20 20:56                                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-21 18:37                                                 ` kuznet
2001-01-20 19:39                                             ` kuznet
2001-01-20 21:05                                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-20 21:31                                               ` Guus Sliepen
2001-01-18 22:20                             ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-18 19:45                 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-18 19:59                 ` kuznet
2001-01-18 20:44                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-19  3:25                 ` dean gaudet
2001-01-19  3:35                   ` dean gaudet
2001-01-18  9:34         ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-18 18:20           ` Rick Jones
2001-01-18 19:45             ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-18 20:30             ` kuznet
2001-01-18 20:50               ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-18 22:49               ` Rick Jones
2001-01-18 13:29         ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-18 16:51           ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-18 17:04             ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-17 21:51 Dan Kegel
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2001-01-24  0:19 Cacophonix

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