From owner-cvs-all Thu Jun 15 21: 9:29 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from hiro.netizen.com.au (hiro.netizen.com.au [203.30.75.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59CE437B82E; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 21:09:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from benno@netizen.com.au) Received: by hiro.netizen.com.au (Postfix, from userid 516) id 88AF7215EC; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:09:20 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:09:20 +1000 From: Benno Rice To: Daniel O'Connor Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Nate Williams , Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_socket.c uipc_socket2.c src/sy Message-ID: <20000616140920.C10887@netizen.com.au> References: <39499E16.9FE731F7@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Daniel O'Connor on Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 01:28:41PM +0930 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 01:28:41PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 16-Jun-00 Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > HTTP belongs to userland. We should no more add support to HTTP than we > > should add support to the dozens of different userland streaming > > protocols in existance. > > So we should just not bother squeezing more performance out of the system on > architectural grounds? > > I can see why it isn't terribly 'nice' but if you want to squeeze more > performance out of your system it IS necessary to do.. Would it be possible to have a facility for loading a filter? Then the kernel just needs to be able to load the filters and the question of wheter it's HTTP or not becomes irrelevant... -- Benno Rice "No, no. We're *sweet* and XNFP Aries Dark Subculture- *innocent* evil bastards." friendly Internet Geek benno@netizen.com.au "Defend your joy" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message