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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "" <netdev@oss.sgi.com>,
	"" <linux-net@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: anyone ever done multicast AF_UNIX sockets?
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:33:48 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030228083009.Y53276@shell.cyberus.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E5E7081.6020704@nortelnetworks.com>



On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Chris Friesen wrote:

>
> It is fairly common to want to distribute information between a single
> sender and multiple receivers on a single box.
>
> Multicast IP sockets are one possibility, but then you have additional
> overhead in the IP stack.
>

I think this is a _very weak_  reason.
Without addressing any of your other arguements, can you describe what
such painful overhead you are talking about? Did you do any measurements
and under what circumstances are unix sockets vs say localhost bound
udp sockets are different? I am not looking for hand waving reason of
"but theres an IP stack".

cheers,
jamal

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-28 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-27 20:09 anyone ever done multicast AF_UNIX sockets? Chris Friesen
2003-02-27 22:21 ` Greg Daley
2003-02-28 13:33 ` jamal [this message]
2003-02-28 14:39   ` Chris Friesen
2003-03-01  3:18     ` jamal
2003-03-02  6:03       ` Chris Friesen
2003-03-02 14:11         ` jamal
2003-03-03 18:02           ` Chris Friesen
2003-03-03 12:51 ` Terje Eggestad
2003-03-03 12:35   ` David S. Miller
2003-03-03 17:09   ` Chris Friesen
2003-03-03 16:55     ` David S. Miller
2003-03-03 18:07       ` Chris Friesen
2003-03-03 17:56         ` David S. Miller
2003-03-03 19:11           ` Chris Friesen
2003-03-03 18:56             ` David S. Miller
2003-03-03 19:42               ` Terje Eggestad
2003-03-03 21:32                 ` Chris Friesen
2003-03-03 23:38                   ` Terje Eggestad
2003-03-03 19:39     ` Terje Eggestad
2003-03-03 22:29       ` Chris Friesen
2003-03-03 23:29         ` Terje Eggestad
2003-03-04  2:38           ` jamal
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     [not found]           ` <3E6398C4.2020605@nortelnetworks.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-03-03 18:18             ` Andi Kleen

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