On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:35:19AM +0100, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > > We do need something for the multicast messaging. Whether that's > supporting AF_LOCAL, SOCK_RDP with multicast or something else (POSIX > message queue extensions ?). There's no real IP layer reliable ordered > multicast delivery system that is low latency and lightweight because > once it hits real networks it changes from a hard problem into a > seriously hard problem because of multicast implosions and the like.
This was attempted in the past with AF_DBUS, but the networking maintainers rightfully pointed out that the model there did not work. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/