Re: [PATCH 0/10] af_unix: add multicast and filtering features to
AF_UNIX
[Posted February 29, 2012 by jake]
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| David Miller <davem-AT-davemloft.net> |
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| Re: [PATCH 0/10] af_unix: add multicast and filtering features to
AF_UNIX |
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| 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.
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