RFC: TSO patch for current

Jack Vogel jfvogel at gmail.com
Tue Sep 5 16:49:58 UTC 2006


On 9/5/06, Prafulla Deuskar <pdeuskar at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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.

Sorry if I misspoke Prafulla, you would know better than I :)

Jack


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