From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Subject: Re: Allowing netlink_family to be any integer (was: [PATCH 2.6] iptables CLUSTERIP target) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:32:39 +0400 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <1098448359.5211.199.camel@uganda> References: <1098444579.1112.66.camel@jzny.localdomain> <20041022113939.GA812@gondor.apana.org.au> <1098447593.1112.77.camel@jzny.localdomain> Reply-To: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-HXl5JTrDdsdSWwPTLq5P" Cc: Herbert Xu , Harald Welte , lmb@suse.de, ahu@ds9a.nl, hch@infradead.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, "David S. Miller" Return-path: To: hadi@cyberus.ca In-Reply-To: <1098447593.1112.77.camel@jzny.localdomain> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --=-HXl5JTrDdsdSWwPTLq5P Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 16:19, jamal wrote: > On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 07:39, Herbert Xu wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 07:29:39AM -0400, jamal wrote: > > >=20 > > > Evgeniy Polyakov(aka mr. Sean Paul) posted code a while back for > > > something that uses netlink that he calls "kernel Konnector". I thin= k > >=20 > > That patch puts the ID in each message, right? >=20 > Yes, the ID is necessary for "routing" the message. Remember this is for > a messaging subsystem so you cant avoid having something that is in the > packet that is used to find where to go next. > I was suggesting also messaging by name. >=20 > > That would mean paying the lookup cost for each message rather than > > once when you create the socket. > >=20 >=20 > Take a look at the patch. See how it can be made better. > Evgeniy, Do you have something new to post? Nothing major, only multicast group selection by id. Although I think message sending mechanism can use unicast. Both have it's own advantages. > cheers, > jamal --=20 Evgeniy Polyakov Crash is better than data corruption. -- Art Grabowski --=-HXl5JTrDdsdSWwPTLq5P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBeP3nIKTPhE+8wY0RArXvAJ4gsjSz2qu8IfAeF+yxFVKhSD00MACdFw5Z wFcp/DrOqTxn+26ZYjEmESA= =AHJB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-HXl5JTrDdsdSWwPTLq5P--