From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:10:08 +0200 (IST) > > > > BTW, TCP will be significantly faster than UDP because with UDP you > > incur an extra full context switch on every packet. > > > > Could you elaborate on this a bit more? What kind of context switch?
TCP queues and takes care of all the sending, packetization, etc. handling asynchronously. Whereas with UDP every write() results in a packet on the wire, packets are always emitted synchronously in process context. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
