[gentoo-amd64] Re: TCP/IP MultiThreading

[Duncan]

"Mihir Sevak" <mihir.sevak@×××××.com> posted
48fcf8860605301209h51c72533l17b9aff20f5518dd@××××××××××.com, excerpted
below, on  Tue, 30 May 2006 15:09:18 -0400:

> can anyone guide me how to do TCP/IP multithreading at kernel level???

Well, not kernel level, but take a look at klibido and the (still
masked) pan-0.9x packages, for a couple of newsreaders managing multiple
connections to multiple servers.  PAN's gtk based, klibido is of course
kde based.  Both are C++ based and have versions later than what's in
portage available from their home sites, with source that should prove
quite instructive in terms of managing multiple TCP/IP connections to
multiple servers at once. There's a simpler but more mature implementation
in the older (C based) PAN 0.14.x series, as well.

Kernel level full implementations...  the only thing I can think of is the
old 2.4 kernel based in-kernel Tux webserver.  That wasn't carried over to
2.6 kernels as the problems with user-space apache and how it played with
the kernel, that had lead to the development of the in-kernel Tux webserver
had been alleviated to a large degree by the time of 2.6, and it was
considered an abuse of kernel-space for security and policy reasons, so it
was dropped from the mainline kernel.

Hmm... there is the multipath kernel RAID drivers.  I know very little
about that and am not sure whether they are or can be TCP based or not,
but if so, that would be another partly/mostly kernel based implementation.

Connection bonding?  That'd be another place to look.



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