Re: PROPOSAL: making liblinux_net library

[Jeroen Dekkers]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 01:42:46AM +0300, Peter 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.

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

Jeroen Dekkers
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