> so someone could invent a new address family for sockets,
> say AF_INFINIBANDO, that is much more light weight than the existing
TCP/IP
> stack.
> Thus with a small change to the application, a good performance increase
can
> be attained.
>Shouldn't be too hard. It looks like its basically AF_PACKET combined with
>the infiniband notions of security.
Maybe a little higher level than raw packets, but yes,
a light-weight sockets protocol driver.
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