Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

Iantcho Vassilev ianchov at gmail.com
Sun Apr 30 21:32:35 UTC 2006


My first impression was as of Kip...
But i think Linus attitude isn`t very perfect....


The big guy is showing muscles...



On 5/1/06, Kip Macy <kip.macy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The implementation is > 7 years old, not used by default,  and was
> intended for a specific application. There really isn't much to say.
>
>    -Kip
>
> On 4/30/06, Iantcho Vassilev <ianchov at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello guys,
> >
> >
> > in bsdnews.com i found this link http://kerneltrap.org/node/6506 and
> > particulary this:
> >
> > "I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent
> idiots.
> > Playing games with VM is bad. memory copies are _also_ bad, but quite
> > frankly, memory copies often have _less_ downside than VM games, and
> bigger
> > caches will only continue to drive that point home."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > What do you think about it?
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