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

[Chris Friesen]

Andi Kleen wrote:

> > On a 1.4GHz P4 I measured a 44% increase in latency between a unix 
> > datagram and a UDP datagram.

> That's weird.

I just reran on a 3.2GHZ P4 running 2.6.11 (Fedora Core 4).  42% latency 
increase.

For stream sockets, unix gives approximately a 62% bandwidth increase 
over tcp.   (Although tcp could probably be tuned to do better than this.)

Chris
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