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From: Thomas Martitz <kugel@rockbox.org>
To: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] kcm: Kernel Connection Multiplexor (KCM)
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 11:14:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56011C08.4070109@rockbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1442788161-2626305-1-git-send-email-tom@herbertland.com>

Am 21.09.2015 um 00:29 schrieb Tom Herbert:
> Kernel Connection Multiplexor (KCM) is a facility that provides a
> message based interface over TCP for generic application protocols.
> The motivation for this is based on the observation that although
> TCP is byte stream transport protocol with no concept of message
> boundaries, a common use case is to implement a framed application
> layer protocol running over TCP. To date, most TCP stacks offer
> byte stream API for applications, which places the burden of message
> delineation, message I/O operation atomicity, and load balancing
> in the application. With KCM an application can efficiently send
> and receive application protocol messages over TCP using a
> datagram interface.
>


Hello Tom,

on a general note I'm wondering what this offers over the existing SCTP 
support. SCTP offers reliable message exchange and multihoming already.

On a specific note, I'm wondering if the dup(2) familiy of system calls 
isn't a lot more suitable/natural instead of overloading accept.

Best regards.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-22  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-20 22:29 [PATCH RFC 0/3] kcm: Kernel Connection Multiplexor (KCM) Tom Herbert
2015-09-20 22:29 ` [PATCH RFC 1/3] rcu: Add list_next_or_null_rcu Tom Herbert
2015-09-20 22:29 ` [PATCH RFC 2/3] kcm: Kernel Connection Multiplexor module Tom Herbert
2015-09-22 16:26   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-09-22 17:26     ` Tom Herbert
2015-09-22 18:41       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-09-23  9:36   ` Thomas Graf
2015-09-20 22:29 ` [PATCH RFC 3/3] kcm: Add statistics and proc interfaces Tom Herbert
2015-09-21 12:24 ` [PATCH RFC 0/3] kcm: Kernel Connection Multiplexor (KCM) Sowmini Varadhan
2015-09-21 17:33   ` Tom Herbert
2015-09-21 21:26     ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-09-21 22:36       ` Tom Herbert
2015-09-21 22:53         ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-09-22  9:14 ` Thomas Martitz [this message]
2015-09-22 16:46   ` Tom Herbert

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