Re: [PATCH] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once

David Miller
2009-01-13T23:28:25Z

From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:28:09 +0100

> If the application uses setsockopt(sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVLOWAT,
> [32768], 4), it would be good if kernel was smart enough and could
> reduce number of wakeups.

Right, and as I pointed out in previous replies the problem is
that splice() receive in TCP doesn't check the low water mark
at all.