Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Is sendfile all that sexy? (fwd)]]

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Thu Jan 18 2001 - 11:51:19 EST


On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Basically MSG_MORE is a simplified probability distribution of the next
> SEND, and it already covers all the other (iovec, nagle, TCP_CORK)
> mechanizm available, in a surprisingly easy way IMO. I believe MSG_MORE is
> very robust from a theoreticaly point of view.

Yeah, and how are you going to teach a perl CGI script that writes to
stdout to use it?

Face it, it's limited. It has, in fact, many of the same limitations
TCP_NOPUSH has.

                Linus

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