From owner-cvs-all Fri Jun 16 8:55:13 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from ntua.gr (achilles.noc.ntua.gr [147.102.222.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56CD037B9F9; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 08:54:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from past@netmode.ece.ntua.gr) Received: from netmode.ece.ntua.gr (dolly.netmode.ece.ntua.gr [147.102.13.10]) by ntua.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA13046; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 18:54:22 +0300 (EET DST) Received: by netmode.ece.ntua.gr (Postfix, from userid 410) id D854E85C3; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 18:43:00 +0300 (EET DST) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 18:43:00 +0300 From: Panagiotis Astithas To: Peter Wemm Cc: Marc Slemko , "Daniel O'Connor" , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Alfred Perlstein , Nate Williams , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_socket.c uipc_socket2.c src/sy Message-ID: <20000616184300.W7810@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> Reply-To: past@netmode.ntua.gr Mail-Followup-To: Peter Wemm , Marc Slemko , Daniel O'Connor , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Alfred Perlstein , Nate Williams , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000616095723.6C4771CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000616095723.6C4771CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@netplex.com.au on Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 02:57:23AM -0700 X-Organizational-Unit: Network Management and Optimal Design Laboratory X-Organization: National Technical University of Athens, GREECE X-Work-Phone: +30-1-772-1-450 X-Work-FAX: +30-1-772-1-452 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 02:57:23AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > This is a cheap tweak that has a *MASSIVE* performance win in the most > performance critical of all the internet protocols. To the bulk of the > population that is internet aware, the internet == HTTP/HTML. If there is > anywhere that we can get a cheap, easy win that has very large payback, > this is it. As I understand it, on the yahoo.com servers we can get an I am generally very conservative about breaking architectural standards, but I think that people should put a lot of thinking on the observation above. From research papers on Internet traffic that I have seen recently you could pretty much say that Internet IS HTTP. So please, don't blatantly reject such a change. If this can be done in an arhitecture-consistent way that doesn't take 10 manmonths to complete, great. Otherwise, lets hack ;-) -past To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message