Re: Speeding up networking

[Marco Gerards]

address@hidden (Niels Möller) writes:

> Some while ago, we were discussing the proper design for the
> networking components of the hurd, i.e., the "replacing pfinet" thing.

Right, I brought that up.  I am still planning to work on this,
although it is a bit later than initially planned.

> If anybody here is interested in practical design of such stuff, and
> you haven't seen it already, I'm pretty sure you want to check out the
> slides at http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/vj/
>
> One part of the solution is moving almost all of the processing needed
> for a tcp/ip "stack" to a user space library. The main argument is
> performance, in particular for scalability for multi/cpu machines.

This looks interesting.

Thanks,
Marco