netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/10] af_unix: add multicast and filtering features to AF

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Message-ID: <mj+md-20120305.140318.15543.albireo@ucw.cz>
Date:	Mon, 5 Mar 2012 15:05:57 +0100
From:	Martin Mares <mj@....cz>
To:	Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@...il.com>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@...labora.co.uk>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, shemminger@...tta.com,
	ying.xue@...driver.com, rodrigo.moya@...labora.co.uk,
	javier@...labora.co.uk, lennart@...ttering.net,
	kay.sievers@...y.org, alban.crequy@...labora.co.uk,
	bart.cerneels@...labora.co.uk, sjoerd.simons@...labora.co.uk,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] af_unix: add multicast and filtering features to
 AF_UNIX

Hi!

> Please check the link above and tell me if that different than the
> model you suggested using BPF, apparently we are talking about the
> very same solution but the implementation detail are getting in the
> way because a lot of code was added.

...

First of all, you should come up with some real data confirming that
the problem you are trying to solve really exist -- i.e., that in some
real (and sensible) setup, routing all messages through DBUS daemon
is a bottleneck.

				Have a nice fortnight
-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares                          <mj@....cz>   http://mj.ucw.cz/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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