Hi,
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:20:45AM -0700, John Gardiner Myers wrote:
> Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
>
> >Only db2 uses vectored io heavily. Oracle does not, and none of the open
> >source databases do. Vectored io is pretty useless for most people.
> >
> >
> writev is extremely important for networking as it avoids small packets.
No, all you can infer from that is that "some method for avoiding
small packets is important for networking." TCP_CORK already does
that in Linux, for tcp at least, without requiring writev. (Of
course, normal nonblocking writev is still there if you want it.)
--Stephen
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