On Thursday 27 April 2006 08:27, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:17:35 +0200 > > > On Thursday 27 April 2006 08:08, David S. Miller wrote: > > > > > I'm currently assuming that the protocol processing is still done in > > > the kernel on behalf of the user context, so the issues you raise > > > really aren't relevant. > > > > > > We really shouldn't be jumping the gun so far into the implementation > > > as others seem to be doing. Let's do it simple first and see if > > > putting things all the way to userspace even is necessary. > > > > I still have my doubts about doing that securely anyways. > > The NIC has a descriptor of buffers, the NIC can thus DMA right > into this buffer which only contains packet data and nothing > else outside of those packets.
Yes but all clients will see all the data from all sockets don't they? [Unless you have a RDMA nic that can scale to hundred thousands of connections, but let's assume standard hardware for now] -Andi - 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
