Re: Van Jacobson net channels
[Posted February 1, 2006 by corbet]
| From: |
| "David S. Miller" <davem-AT-davemloft.net> |
| To: |
| ak-AT-suse.de |
| Subject: |
| Re: Van Jacobson net channels |
| Date: |
| Wed, 01 Feb 2006 13:14:23 -0800 (PST) |
| Cc: |
| jgarzik-AT-pobox.com, Leonid.Grossman-AT-neterion.com,
linville-AT-tuxdriver.com, netdev-AT-vger.kernel.org |
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 20:50:31 +0100
> On Wednesday 01 February 2006 20:37, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > To have a fully async, zero copy network receive, POSIX read(2) is
> > inadequate.
>
> Agreed, but POSIX aio is adequate.
No, it's a joke.
To do this stuff right you want networking experts (not UNIX interface
standards experts) to come up with how to do things, because folks
like POSIX are going to make a rocking implementation next to
impossible.
Only folks like Van Jacobson can take us out of the myopic view we
currently have of how networking receive is done.
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