Re: PROPOSAL: making liblinux_net library

[Peter Novodvorsky]

Hello, Jeroen!

>>>>> "Jeroen" == Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@dekkers.cx> writes:

    Jeroen> On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 01:42:46AM +0300, Peter
    Jeroen> Novodvorsky wrote:
    >> I've read Protocol Service Decomposition for High-Performance
    >> Networking and it influenced on me much. I think it reasonable
    >> idea to insert a thin network interfaces code into kernel
    >> (actually what linux-src/net/core is). But it is far goal and
    >> somebody might not accept it.

    Jeroen> There is no reason to put any networking code in the
    Jeroen> kernel. If you want speed, you should look at L4. With L4
    Jeroen> it's possible to have all code in user-space and still be
    Jeroen> fast. It might even be possible to do it faster, but at
    Jeroen> least you can have a nice speed _and_ all the flexibility
    Jeroen> a microkernel design gives you.

My aim is to optimize pfinet and add advanced networking to it. pfinet
runs on the Hurd, not on MacOS X for example. May be if it run on Mac OS X
I'd choose another methods (or I didn't start to think about it at
all).

But currently we are talking about the Hurd. The Hurd is running above
GNU Mach. 

Peace,
Peter.

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