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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] af_unix: add multicast and filtering features to
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:05:35 -0500 (EST)
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From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:00:06 +0100

> Primary for performance reasons. D-bus is an IPC system for processes in
> the same machine so traversing the whole TCP/IP stack seems a little
> overkill to me.

You haven't actually tested what the cost of this actually is, so what
you're saying is mere speculation.  In many cases TCP/UDP over
loopback is actually faster than AF_UNIX.

Since this is the premise of your whole rebuttal, I'll simply stop
reading here.