Re: Early SPECWeb99 results on 2.5.33 with TSO on e1000

alan,

good to know.  it's a nice piece of engineering.  it's useful to note that 
linux has such a long and rich history of breaking de-facto standards in 
order to make things work better.

t.

On 12 Sep 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 14:57, Todd Underwood wrote:

quoted

thanks.  although i'd love to take credit, i don't think that the 
reverse-order fragmentation appreciation is all that original:  who 
wouldn't want their data sctructure size determined up-front? :-) (not to 
mention getting header-overwriting for-free as part of the single copy.

As far as I am aware it was original when Linux first did it (and we
broke cisco pix, some boot proms, some sco in the process). Credit goes
to Arnt Gulbrandsen probably better known nowdays for his work on Qt

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