From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jarek Poplawski Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 09:42:53 +0000 Message-ID: <20090206094253.GB4879@ff.dom.local> References: <20090203094108.GA4639@ff.dom.local> <20090205.235258.257422341.davem@davemloft.net> <20090206091034.GA4879@ff.dom.local> <20090206.011722.41272682.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, zbr@ioremap.net, w@1wt.eu, dada1@cosmosbay.com, ben@zeus.com, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.158]:45213 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752278AbZBFJnA (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 04:43:00 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090206.011722.41272682.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.