Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753727Ab0HBO3o (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2010 10:29:44 -0400 Received: from mail-qw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.216.46]:59382 "EHLO mail-qw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753527Ab0HBO3m convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2010 10:29:42 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=o+CJAKbpedsKhgqx47vuMSZDtettbg3VVPnlWk4X1kMed04U/7L5Y90daZooBckOVN lkIcR2BhBSfPBy23Q0cNnJNHrbSFiFW2MQBQVRLwy2BsB5/+6AocZt4kAoKpR57fNjYN qeKkCSuSz0XBfuKpw7VKGD4EBVIY+ygkvc2W0= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <215375.1280753770@localhost> Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 22:29:41 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: RE: a Great Idea - include Kademlia networking protocol in kernel From: hp fk To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1190 Lines: 26 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: hp fk Date: 2010/8/2 Subject: Re: a Great Idea - include Kademlia networking protocol in kernel To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu popular file sharing p2p applications like emule and bittorrent, innovative application like Osiris each has its own Kademlia protocol implementation in userspace presently. the imaginable kernel support needed is to reduce many repeated (different or same) Kademlia protocol implementations running in userspace to a consolidated one at kernel level, so that the Kademlia protocol as a p2p network infrastructure is provided in kernel and any p2p application could just use the interface provided by kernel, thus a great p2p network is easily created, and ?applications on that network infrastructure could grow rapidly. 2010/8/2 ?: > 1) You failed to explain what kernel support, if any, would be needed for this > protocol. -- 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/