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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: billfink@mindspring.com
Cc: brutus@google.com, edumazet@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net-tcp: TCP/IP stack bypass for loopback connections
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:39:07 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120814.223907.1954070712467723629.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120815012428.c747fa9d.billfink@mindspring.com>

From: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 01:24:28 -0400

> I see no reason to make it obtuse rather than something more
> descriptive of its function (as opposed to how it's implemented).

I want to live in a world where things are allowed to have some
character, and some slightly amusing names.  And that's why we'll
call it TCP friends, thank you very much.

> I do have some concern that since the loopback path through the
> TCP stack won't be heavily exercised anymore, it may be more likely
> for bugs or performance degradations to creep into that code.

Are you kidding me?  Most people do not use loopback TCP, they use
TCP to a real external entity.  TCP friends only kicks in for
loopback connections.

So, like all of your other concerns, this one is meritless.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-15  5:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-10  0:52 [PATCH v2] net-tcp: TCP/IP stack bypass for loopback connections Bruce "Brutus" Curtis
2012-08-14  3:12 ` [PATCH] TCP/IP stack bypass for loopback connections fix Weiping Pan
2012-08-14  6:31 ` [PATCH v2] net-tcp: TCP/IP stack bypass for loopback connections Bill Fink
2012-08-14  7:37   ` David Miller
2012-08-23 16:41     ` Stephen Clark
2012-08-14 16:19   ` Bruce Curtis
2012-08-15  5:24     ` Bill Fink
2012-08-15  5:39       ` David Miller [this message]
2012-08-15 16:17         ` Bill Fink
2012-08-14 21:22 ` David Miller
2012-08-14 21:45   ` Bruce Curtis
2012-08-14 21:50     ` David Miller
2012-08-23 10:57 ` Pádraig Brady
2012-08-23 11:40   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-09 17:54     ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-09-09 21:39       ` David Miller

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