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Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 09:42:53 +0000
From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once
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On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 01:17:22AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
...
> And all I'm saying is that since the page allocator provides that
> facility, and using pages solves all of the splice() et al.  problems,
> building something extremely simple on top of the page allocator seems
> to be a good way to go.

This all is absolutely right if we can afford it: more simple - more
memory wasted. I hope you're right, but on the other hand, people
don't use slob by default.

Jarek P.