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Date:      Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:45:13 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Andre Oppermann <oppermann@networx.ch>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TCP loopback socket fusing 
Message-ID:  <47011.1284381913@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:33:50 %2B0200." <4C8E0C1E.2020707@networx.ch> 

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In message <4C8E0C1E.2020707@networx.ch>, Andre Oppermann writes:

>To short-circuit the send and receive sockets on localhost TCP connections
>I've made a proof-of-concept patch that directly places the data in the
>other side's socket buffer without doing any packetization and other protocol
>overhead [...]

Can we keep the option (sysctl ?) of doing the full packet thing, it is
a very convenient debugging tool...

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