linux-kernel - Re: New Address Family: Inter Process Networking (IPN)

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Date:	Thu, 6 Dec 2007 22:26:44 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Renzo Davoli <renzo@...unibo.it>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New Address Family: Inter Process Networking (IPN)

> Latency was very 
> important, so we ended up doing essentially a multicast unix socket 
> rather than taking the extra penalty for UDP multicast.

What extra penalty? Local UDP shouldn't be much more expensive than Unix.

-Andi
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