On 9/1/06, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know that's not an argument in favour of il, > but there ain't anything else is there?without doing a survey, linux has added three new ip protocols since the beginning of the year. dccp, sctp and tipc. the only one that is smaller than tcp is dccp and it doesn't provide for retransmission. (it's intended for streaming content, i believe.) linux 2.6.17 proto ip4 linecount features udp 1594 tcp 14628 dccp 8224 congestion controlled, unreliable sctp 29139 reliable, mtu-aware, in-order + packet bundling, multipath tipc 18175 "transparent" ipc. oh, for comparison's sake cpu kernel: udp 647 il 1408 tcp 3177 - erik
So what's the performance of il vs tcp like on Plan 9? Is it because TCP could be done better? Also what are the chances of adding TCP to the FS kernel? I just don't see that il support in linux is as likely to be supportable as adding TCP to our more controlled code base. Dave
