Re: New Address Family: Inter Process Networking (IPN)

[Andi Kleen]

> Latency was very 
> important, so we ended up doing essentially a multicast unix socket 
> rather than taking the extra penalty for UDP multicast.

What extra penalty? Local UDP shouldn't be much more expensive than Unix.

-Andi
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