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From: Jim Thompson <jim@netgate.com>
Subject: Re: it's the output, not ack coalescing (Re: TSO and FreeBSD vs Linux)
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:55:51 -0500
To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Cc: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com>,
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On Aug 18, 2013, at 4:16 PM, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> wrote:

> The mistake, i think,
> is to expect that there is one magic solution to handle all the useful
> cases.

AKA: not all the world is Yahoo.