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From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] net: Introduce recvmmsg socket syscall
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 20:10:00 +0400
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Hi Arnaldo.

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 08:06:52PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@redhat.com) wrote:
> Meaning receive multiple messages, reducing the number of syscalls and
> net stack entry/exit operations.
> 
> Next patches will introduce mechanisms where protocols that want to
> optimize this operation will provide an unlocked_recvmsg operation.
 
What's the difference from the single msg with multiple iovecs?

Can we implement receiving from multiple sockets using this or similar interface?

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	Evgeniy Polyakov