RFC: TSO patch for current

Prafulla Deuskar pdeuskar at freebsd.org
Tue Sep 5 09:25:42 PDT 2006


Jack Vogel [jfvogel at gmail.com] wrote:
> On 9/2/06, Andre Oppermann <andre at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> >I can't comment on the em part but the tcp_output.c stuff looks
> >very much like a straight port from NetBSD.  If we take code from
> >the other BSDs we have to remark this in the emails we send with
> >patches and the commit message (otherwise we get accused of 'stealing
> >without attribution').
> 
> I dont know that I'd call it a straight port, rather I was working from some
> prototype code that Prafulla had working back on 4.7, but I think at that
> time that he may have patterned it after NetBSD. 

I don't think NetBSD had TSO support in 2002 when I first did the 4.7 patch 
for internal testing.

Prafulla


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