On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 02:27:15AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > Routing is a pretty basic network feature, yet userspace manages it > and the kernel just does the switching. > > It's a control plane issue.
Exactly. I'm not talking about moving everything into user-space either. Just the bits that does ARP. So for things that are already in the neighbour cache (which will be most packets) we will never go into user-space. The only time we'd go there is for an ARP cache miss. In fact most of the bits for that is already there since user-space can already manipulate the ARP cache. The only missing bit is the notification when there is a cache miss. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - 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
