On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:33:25PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > http://lwn.net/Articles/144273/ > "Kernel Summit 2005: Convergence of network and storage paths" > > We believe that an approach very much like today's patch set is > necessary for NBD, iSCSI, AoE or the like ever to work reliably. > We further believe that a properly working version of at least one of > these subsystems is critical to the viability of Linux as a modern > storage platform.
There is another approach for that - do not use slab allocator for network dataflow at all. It automatically has all you pros amd if implemented correctly can have a lot of additional usefull and high-performance features like full zero-copy and total fragmentation avoidance. -- 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