From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 5 21:59:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.viasoft.com.cn (unknown [61.153.1.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7484337B405; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:59:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from viasoft.com.cn (davidwnt.viasoft.com.cn [192.168.1.239]) by mail.viasoft.com.cn (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA12695; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:06:29 +0800 Message-ID: <3C0F0803.7010506@viasoft.com.cn> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 13:54:11 +0800 From: David Xu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Matthew Dillon , Lamont Granquist , Mike Barcroft , Jim Durham , Jordan Hubbard , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can TCP changes be put in RELENG_4? References: <20011205085750.I28101-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> <200112052142.fB5LgVM53167@apollo.backplane.com> <3C0EF953.54CF24DB@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It will be still a defacto, because Linux distributions will always install tuned version of Linux kernel as default while FreeBSD not, the default GENERIC FreeBSD kernel's performace sucks, and ordinary user will find FreeBSD is slower, could we let user to select which kernel to install at installing time? -- David Xu Terry Lambert wrote: >Matthew Dillon wrote: > >> These changes are performance fixes, not security fixes. I consider >> them fairly significant performance fixes, but these bugs have been in >> the TCP stack for literally a whole year without an outcry so I don't >> see much justification for putting them into the security branch. >> > >I think the main question is whether or not Linux should continue >to kick FreeBSD's ass after 4.5 is released. > >-- Terry > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message