Re: Status of AIO

From: David S. Miller
Date: Mon Mar 06 2006 - 22:01:44 EST


From: Phillip Susi <psusi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:34:46 -0500

> What is this "net channels"? I'll do some googling but if you have a
> direct reference it would be helpful.

You didn't google hard enough, my blog entry on the topic
comes up as the first entry when you google for "Van Jacobson
net channels".

> Maybe you should try using a microkernel then like mach? The Linux way
> of doing things is to leave critical services that most user mode code
> depends on, such as filesystems and the network stack, in the kernel. I
> don't think that's going to change.

Oh yee of little faith, and we don't need to go to a microkernel
architecture to move things like parts of the TCP stack into
user space.
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