Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754741AbXLFV05 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:26:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751549AbXLFV0t (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:26:49 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:37823 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751149AbXLFV0t (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:26:49 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 22:26:44 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Chris Friesen Cc: Andi Kleen , Renzo Davoli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New Address Family: Inter Process Networking (IPN) Message-ID: <20071206212644.GA26725@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20071205164055.GA2082@cs.unibo.it> <20071206053016.GA1464@cs.unibo.it> <20071206163538.GC20595@one.firstfloor.org> <47585D66.3000404@nortel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47585D66.3000404@nortel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 476 Lines: 12 > Latency was very > important, so we ended up doing essentially a multicast unix socket > rather than taking the extra penalty for UDP multicast. What extra penalty? Local UDP shouldn't be much more expensive than Unix. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/