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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Subject: Re: tainted warnings with tcp splicing in 3.7.1
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:49:17 -0800
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On 01/10/2013 10:42 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Can we use zero copy for the sender as well (sendfile() or vmsplice()) ?

Not at present.  The TCP_SENDFILE test has not been "migrated" and there 
is no corresponding sendfile() test in the omni code, so the attempt to 
enable copy-avoidance won't "take."

I'll take that as a feature request for netperf.

rick