Much improved sendfile(2) kernel implementation
Andre Oppermann
andre at freebsd.org
Thu Sep 21 11:06:56 PDT 2006
Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
>> Is there RELENG_6 version of your patch. If there is one, we can test it
>> quite extensively.
>
> This patch does not fully apply to RELENG_6 as there are some small changes
> and a bit locking differences. It shouldn't be too hard to adapt it. You
> won't get TSO speedups though and we can't MFC TSO because it changes the
> ABI+API for network drivers.
Actually forget what I said about TSO. That can go in as it doesn't change
the ABI and only extends the API in a compatible way. What can't go in are
the recent VLAN changes but that's completely unrelated to TSO.
--
Andre
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