From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: What's the status of TCP friends? Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 23:52:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20140317.235232.1343586786531900880.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20140317031605.GA22502@gmail.com> <20140318012120.GG12291@order.stressinduktion.org> <20140318031346.GA5142@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hannes@stressinduktion.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bingtian.ly@taobao.com, edumazet@google.com, brutus@google.com, panweiping3@gmail.com, tmorvai@gmail.com To: gnehzuil.liu@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:45961 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752266AbaCRDwg (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Mar 2014 23:52:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20140318031346.GA5142@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Zheng Liu Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:13:46 +0800 > Now our program needs a IPC mechansim that can commnucate between > two servers and provide a high performance when two processes are > run on the same server. Using both TCP and AF_UNIX, as needed, and dynamically, is a technique which has been in use for more than two decades by X. Nothing stops you from adopting such a scheme too. Usually when I someone says "I can't" it sounds to me more like "I've decided to stop trying to think of a way to make it work."