netdev - Re: [RFC 1/2] net: Introduce recvmmsg socket syscall

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Date:	Wed, 3 Jun 2009 18:44:22 -0700
From:	Andrew Grover <andy.grover@...il.com>
To:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Cc:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Chris Van Hoof <vanhoof@...hat.com>,
	Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] net: Introduce recvmmsg socket syscall

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com> wrote:
> Not to throw more questions into the mix again, but didn't Ingo write a
> batching syscall a while back, which let you issue several syscalls in one trap
> to kernel space?  I understand that your approach has some efficiency gains over
> that, but did that ever get accepted upstream?  Is the overlap there sufficient
> to make this approach redundant?  Or are the gains in performance here
> sufficient to warrant this new call?

I couldn't find this via Google or any posts to LKML by Ingo on this?

I'm very interested in multiple send/recvmsg support. So, it's
definitely going to happen? :-)

Regards -- Andy
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