From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757598AbbCEQb2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Mar 2015 11:31:28 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60036 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750959AbbCEQbZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Mar 2015 11:31:25 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Alex Elsayed Subject: Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 08:31:09 -0800 Message-ID: References: <54F5EF6E.9090303@digirati.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66-87-139-68.pools.spcsdns.net User-Agent: KNode/4.14.3 Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michel Machado wrote: > Hi there, > > We have been developing Linux XIA, a new network stack that > emphasizes evolvability and interoperability, for a couple of years, and > it has now reached a degree of maturity that allows others to experiment > with it. >>From looking at your wiki, "network stack" may have been a poor choice of term - it looks like rather than being a new network stack (which in Linux, is commonly used to refer to the software stack that lives between the APIs and the hardware), this is a new protocol (and framework _for_ protocols) operating at the same level of the network as IP, with ideas extending upwards through TCP. Now, that's a rather different proposal - witness that RDS, TIPC, etc all made it into the kernel relatively easily, especially when compared to netmap, or any other system that tried to replace the Linux networking infrastructure.