Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
>				 So i do believe that the networking
> code is properly designed in this respect, and this concept goes to the
> highest level of the networking code.

Absolutely. This is why I have no conceptual problems with the networking
layer changes, and why I am in violent disagreement with people who think
the networking layer should have used the (much inferior, in my opinion)
kiobuf/kiovec approach.

For people who worry about code re-use and argue for kiobuf/kiovec on
those grounds, I can only say that the code re-use should go the other
way. It should be "the bad code should re-use code from the good code". It
should NOT be "the new code should re-use code from the old code".

			Linus