Re: [patch] Re: Can modules block on socket writes? (fwd)

[Ingo Molnar <mingo elte hu>]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Marcus Gruendler wrote:

> I just had another _really nice_ (tm) idea! What do you think about a
> SEND_BUFFER action that awaits a vector of (pointer to) buffers. This
> would enable a scatter gather write behaviour just like writev(). What
> do you think about that?

SEND_BUFFER uses the MSG_MORE flag already, so if you do multiple
SEND_BUFFERs then it will be coalesced properly. No need to complicate the
interface - you can do any number of SEND_BUFFERs after each other.

	Ingo