Re: Andrea Arcangeli's chat

Chemolli Francesco (USI) wrote:

> Maybe I should try to expand on this.
> It is a manner of calling sendto() where every time but the last it's called
> with
> MSG_MORE. If I understood correctly, it causes the kernel to aggressively
> optimize
> network operations, because it knows that there is more data to come (i.e.
> optimizing
> packetization, using jumbo frames or similar systems).

Which is almost what I thought it was.

Should make a difference for the first packets on a cache hit. For
subsequent packets/blocks of data the difference is probably quite
minimal.

--
Henrik