From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754640AbXLGKDd (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 05:03:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751707AbXLGKDZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 05:03:25 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:49185 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751578AbXLGKDZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 05:03:25 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 11:03:22 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: David Miller Cc: cfriesen@nortel.com, andi@firstfloor.org, renzo@cs.unibo.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New Address Family: Inter Process Networking (IPN) Message-ID: <20071207100322.GM20595@one.firstfloor.org> References: <47585D66.3000404@nortel.com> <20071206.194131.79623068.davem@davemloft.net> <4758CA53.7000407@nortel.com> <20071206.224005.42816421.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071206.224005.42816421.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Stop making excuses, with minor adjustments we have the facilities to > meet your needs. There is no need for yet-another-protocol to do what I suspect they would be better of just using IP multicast. But the localhost latency penalty vs Unix Chris was talking about probably needs to be investigated. -Andi