Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:13:06 -1000 (HST) From: Dave Cornejo <dave@dogwood.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linus Torvalds on FreeBSD's Use of Copy-on-write Message-ID: <200604241913.k3OJD6S1068826@white.dogwood.com> In-Reply-To: <3942.1145862379@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> In message <200604240633.k3O6XUJ0042841@chez.mckusick.com>, Kirk McKusick write > s: > >Anyone working on zero-copy sockets care to respond to this? > > I will strongly recommend that nobody does. > > First: _maybe_ relevant and competent benchmarks will _eventually_ > vindicate one or the other approach, but in all likelyhood, the > difference is a wash for all real-world, practical purposes. > > Second: nobody is going to convince anybody about anything on a > topic where the fronts have been drawn up so sharp from the beginning. > Time spent on tilting windmills is time not spent on the code. > > Third: Linus has internal project fights to fight, and this could > quite likely be part of internal Linux bickering that got out of > hand. > > If any kind of official response should be generated, it should > be humorous and mostly non-insulting. Something like: > > The FreeBSD Project has taken Linus recent comments "ad > notam". We usually hold Linus' technical competence and > judgement in high regard, but if we are indeed "incompetent > idiots" people should really not trust us on that point. > > would do fine. This one truly deserves an honored place in the forutne file > > Poul-Henning > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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