Transport-level protocols in user space
Transport-level protocols in user space
[Kernel] Posted Jun 20, 2016 21:31 UTC (Mon) by corbet
The Linux networking developers have long held a strong opinion about user-space protocol implementations: they should be avoided in favor of making the in-kernel implementation better. So it might be surprising to see a veteran networking developer post a patch set aimed at making user-space implementations easier. A look at this patch and its motivations shines an interesting light on changes that are taking place in the networking world.