Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:05:01 +0400
From:      Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andre Oppermann <andre@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r241931 - in head/sys: conf kern
Message-ID:  <20121023160501.GB70741@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <5086B24C.9000606@freebsd.org>
References:  <201210231419.q9NEJjYH082863@svn.freebsd.org> <20121023144211.GX70741@FreeBSD.org> <5086B24C.9000606@freebsd.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 05:05:48PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
A> There shouldn't be any users.  Zero copy send is broken and
A> responsible for random kernel crashes.  Zero copy receive isn't
A> supported by any modern driver.  Both are useless to dangerous.
A> 
A> The main problem with ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS was that it sounded great
A> and who wouldn't want to have zero copy sockets?  Unfortunately
A> it doesn't work that way.

Okay, it appeared that there are users, even on current@ mailing
list during couple of hours of exposition.

Can we keep the old option as compatibility?


-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20121023160501.GB70741>