linux-kernel - Re: Linux XIA

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Message-ID: <mda0cd$2rt$2@ger.gmane.org>
Date:	Thu, 05 Mar 2015 08:31:09 -0800
From:	Alex Elsayed <eternaleye@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal

Michel Machado wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
>     We have been developing Linux XIA, a new network stack that
> emphasizes evolvability and interoperability, for a couple of years, and
> it has now reached a degree of maturity that allows others to experiment
> with it.

>From looking at your wiki, "network stack" may have been a poor choice of 
term - it looks like rather than being a new network stack (which in Linux, 
is commonly used to refer to the software stack that lives between the APIs 
and the hardware), this is a new protocol (and framework _for_ protocols) 
operating at the same level of the network as IP, with ideas extending 
upwards through TCP.

Now, that's a rather different proposal - witness that RDS, TIPC, etc all 
made it into the kernel relatively easily, especially when compared to 
netmap, or any other system that tried to replace the Linux networking 
infrastructure.

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