Re: [PATCH 0/10] af_unix: add multicast and filtering features toAF_UNIX

[David Miller]

From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:00:06 +0100

> Primary for performance reasons. D-bus is an IPC system for processes in
> the same machine so traversing the whole TCP/IP stack seems a little
> overkill to me.

You haven't actually tested what the cost of this actually is, so what
you're saying is mere speculation.  In many cases TCP/UDP over
loopback is actually faster than AF_UNIX.

Since this is the premise of your whole rebuttal, I'll simply stop
reading here.
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