Re: [RFC,net-next,x86 0/6] Nontemporal copies in unix socket write path

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Thu May 12 2022 - 19:13:04 EST


On Thu, 12 May 2022 15:53:05 -0700 Joe Damato wrote:
> 1. Do you have any strong opinions on the sendmsg flag vs a socket option?

It sounded like you want to mix nt and non-nt on a single socket hence
the flag was a requirement. socket option is better because we can have
many more of those than there are bits for flags, obviously.

> 2. If I can think of a way to avoid the indirect calls, do you think this
> series is ready for a v1? I'm not sure if there's anything major that
> needs to be addressed aside from the indirect calls.

Nothing comes to mind, seems pretty straightforward to me.