On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 02:25:08PM -0800, Zach Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi guys,
Hello Zach. > I'm hearing noise about the 'Extended Sockets' API in Oracle. It's an > extension to the socket API put together by an industry group that calls > itself the Interconnect Software Consortium and is working in > partnership with the open group. The API adds support for things like > memory registration, async operations completed through event queues, > "standard" sendfile() and async poll(), etc. > > It's freely downloadable as a PDF from > > http://www.opengroup.org/icsc/doc.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl&gdid=6415 > > Page 7 has a list of contributors that seems to have a glaring lack of > "free" unix representation of any kind :( > > It seems certain that the commercial Unix vendors will adopt pieces of > it in some capacity. Which means Oracle guys will want to play with it. > Which means I'll get questions about supporting it in Linux :) > > Has the netdev world developed an opinion about this stuff? There are some stuff already implemented and presented in netdev@, unfortunately it did not get much attention and feedback. Queue of events used for socket operations: http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/old/?section=projects&item=kevent http://lwn.net/Articles/171317/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=113949344414464&w=2 Network AIO operations: http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/old/?section=projects&item=naio sending support: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=113992502032729&w=2 receiving support: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=113949344426019&w=2 Sending zero-copy is supported from ... it was added very long ago. Receiving zero-copy requires special hardware, which can split protocol header from data. Some work can be found at: http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/old/?section=projects&item=recv_zero_copy http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=113465769816658&w=2 So, while commercial Unix vendors create rocket-science-capable API, Linux just implements the core. > - z -- Evgeniy Polyakov - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
