svn commit: r293439 - in head: lib/libc/sys sys/dev/ti sys/kern sys/sys usr.bin/netstat

[Gleb Smirnoff]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 01:22:45PM -0800, NGie Cooper wrote:
N> > 1) The review requests were sent continuosly to arch@ during last 1.5 years.
N> > 
N> >   https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2014-May/015385.html
N> > 
N> > 2) Team of engineers at Netflix has a lot of code build on top of that code,
N> >   e.g. SSL_sendfile(). Of course, writing something on top assumes reviewing,
N> >   so assume it reviewed thoroughly by rrs at . Actually, here is list of people
N> >   who did some review of the code: emax@, rrs@, scottl@, gallatin@, imp at .
N> > 
N> > 3) Do you have any particulars concerns with this change or those made recently
N> >   to sys/kern and sys/net*?
N> 
N> I don’t as of right now, other than it’s really difficult to audit changes and assess risk if someone doesn’t have access to the CRs :(.
N> 
N> Also…
N> 
N> N> >  An
N> N> >  explanation of why such behavior is beneficial compared to old one is
N> N> >  going to be too long for a commit message, so we will skip it here.
N> 
N> This wasn’t really helpful. It would have been nice if there was a wiki page or some other reference used in this commit which would have described the where, why, and how behind this change a lot more.

I'm writing status report on this right now.

Also there is slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/facepalmtarbz2/new-sendfile-in-english

And there is even a paper, alas in Russian.

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