From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (unknown [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4271B1381FA for ; Sat, 10 May 2014 06:04:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D39CE08DC; Sat, 10 May 2014 06:04:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 518E4E086D for ; Sat, 10 May 2014 06:04:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.188.230.255] (unknown [85.76.130.37]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ssuominen) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2261633FD05 for ; Sat, 10 May 2014 06:04:47 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <536DC13A.4050606@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 09:03:38 +0300 From: Samuli Suominen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Call For Agenda Items - 13 May 2014 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5737bc2b-d149-40ca-b5ee-8623bdb1d78b X-Archives-Hash: 82fedbb50155128f59639027ed04bf7e On 10/05/14 05:56, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 01:21:33PM +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507210 >> net-misc/opensshd: do not enable USE=hpn by default >> >> Both bugs have seen dismissive responses from the base-system team, >> which I find somewhat disappointing. I understand that they are quite >> busy, but it seems to me that these bugs could at least get a serious >> response, rather than a fairly blunt "no" (but it might just be me?). > As the dev that did a number of the ports to a new version for HPN, and > sent that to upstream, I would really like upstream openssh to accept > the hpn patches. They provide a huge performance boost: i've used them > to copy multiple terabytes at >800mbit transatlantic. > > As a member of base-system, I feel the performance benefit of the patch, > and that it has no downsides or extra dependencies is sufficent for it > to be enabled by default. > As a member of base-system too, I concur with everything you just said. - Samuli