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From: Bhanu Nagendra Pisupati <bpisupat@cs.indiana.edu>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: [9fans] critique of sockets API
Date: Tue,  9 Jun 2009 14:49:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0906081807350.385@tank.cs.indiana.edu> (raw)

Interesting read:
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/6/28495-whither-sockets/fulltext

If I am right, the filesystem based networking interface offered by Plan 9
has the three limitations discussed here:
* performance overhead: app requesting data from a socket typically needs
to perform 2 system calls (select/read or alt/read)
* lack of an "kernel up-call API": which allows the kernel to inform an
app each time network data is available
* hard to implement "multi homing" with support for multiple network
interfaces

Any thoughts/comments?

Thanks,
-Bhanu



             reply	other threads:[~2009-06-09 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-09 18:49 Bhanu Nagendra Pisupati [this message]
2009-06-09 18:59 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-09 22:11 ` Russ Cox
     [not found] <mailman.998.1244574121.1513.9fans@9fans.net>
2009-06-09 23:20 ` Bhanu Nagendra Pisupati
2009-06-09 23:24   ` J.R. Mauro
2009-06-09 23:33   ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-06-10  3:33     ` Gary Wright
2009-06-10  0:07   ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-10  0:34     ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-11  7:07     ` Eris Discordia
     [not found] <mailman.1007.1244590421.1513.9fans@9fans.net>
2009-06-10 22:50 ` Bhanu Nagendra Pisupati
2009-06-11 12:34   ` erik quanstrom
     [not found] <mailman.1.1244635201.19660.9fans@9fans.net>
2009-06-10 23:46 ` Bhanu Nagendra Pisupati
2009-06-11 12:16 erik quanstrom
     [not found] <b0a72b5826eb44300d3603f585859910@quanstro.net>
2009-06-11 14:54 ` Eris Discordia
2009-06-11 18:24   ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-11 21:21     ` Eris Discordia
2009-06-11 23:41       ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-12  4:32         ` Paul Lalonde
2009-06-12  7:19         ` Eris Discordia
     [not found]     ` <D9FE8C51EE2D568C05E555DD@192.168.1.2>
2009-06-11 23:34       ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-06-12  7:21         ` Eris Discordia
     [not found] <mailman.1.1244808001.26495.9fans@9fans.net>
2009-06-13  1:39 ` Bhanu Nagendra Pisupati

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