TCP loopback socket fusing

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4C8E0C1E.2020707 at networx.ch>, Andre Oppermann writes:

>To short-circuit the send and receive sockets on localhost TCP connections
>I've made a proof-of-concept patch that directly places the data in the
>other side's socket buffer without doing any packetization and other protocol
>overhead [...]

Can we keep the option (sysctl ?) of doing the full packet thing, it is
a very convenient debugging tool...

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