Linus Torvalds on FreeBSD's Use of Copy-on-write

[Dave Cornejo]

> In message <200604240633.k3O6XUJ0042841 at chez.mckusick.com>, Kirk McKusick write
> s:
> >Anyone working on zero-copy sockets care to respond to this?
> 
> I will strongly recommend that nobody does.
> 
> First: _maybe_ relevant and competent benchmarks will _eventually_
> vindicate one or the other approach, but in all likelyhood, the
> difference is a wash for all real-world, practical purposes.
> 
> Second: nobody is going to convince anybody about anything on a
> topic where the fronts have been drawn up so sharp from the beginning.
> Time spent on tilting windmills is time not spent on the code.
> 
> Third: Linus has internal project fights to fight, and this could
> quite likely be part of internal Linux bickering that got out of
> hand.
> 
> If any kind of official response should be generated, it should
> be humorous and mostly non-insulting.  Something like:
> 
> 	The FreeBSD Project has taken Linus recent comments "ad
> 	notam".  We usually hold Linus' technical competence and
> 	judgement in high regard, but if we are indeed "incompetent
> 	idiots" people should really not trust us on that point.
> 
> would do fine.

This one truly deserves an honored place in the forutne file

> 
> Poul-Henning
> 
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