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Date:      Mon, 14 Dec 1998 20:52:38 PST
From:      Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To:        Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MLEN < write length < MINCLSIZE "bug" 
Message-ID:  <98Dec14.205241pst.177534@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Dec 98 06:37:09 PST." <199812141437.OAA00472@netrinsics.com> 

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In message <199812141437.OAA00472@netrinsics.com> you write:
>  1. This isn't a bug.  It's a performance tradeoff of memory efficiency
>     (allocating an mbuf cluster) versus protocol efficiency (sending 
>     two packets).

I still think it's a bug; that's why I wrote the (buggy) patch referred
to in the Squid FAQ.  See my discussion at
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c#rev1.41
(and in particular, the paragraph labelled "The real fix"...)

Perhaps someday someone will figure out why X starts acting so funny
with this patch and we can put it back, or perhaps someday someone will
have time to implement "the real fix".

  Bill

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