On 11/29/2009 05:05 AM, Bruce Simpson wrote: > Bruce Simpson wrote: >> What's likely to give a performance boost, in the short term, is >> cutting over to UNIX domain stream sockets for XRL. These are likely >> to function like pipes. At least in FreeBSD, pipes are handled as a >> fifofs vnode, which shims directly to the UNIX domain stream socket >> I/O path; these are zero-copy inside the kernel, because the I/O is >> strictly local. > > UNIX domain sockets can be used in XRL as it stands, by passing 'env > XORP_PF=x', without any patches.
If these are faster, why not use them by default? This might fix the security problems of having some xorpsh connect from an outside box too... Thanks, Ben _______________________________________________ Xorp-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/xorp-hackers
