On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:42:54PM +0100, Jamie Lokier (jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > While skbs and netlink aren't that slow, I suspect they're an order of > magnitude or two slower than, say, epoll or inotify at passing events > around. Skbs are those tiny bits which allow 100 Gbit/s forwarding between multiple interfaces. But of course it can not be as fast as plain memory copy :) Having one skb allocation per IO syscall will be challenging but after all we have this for send/recv calls and achieve high performance numbers. Idea with merging events in the same skb will be also very non-trivial. -- Evgeniy Polyakov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
