From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jrm8005@gmail.com
Cc: olafvdspek@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unix sockets via TCP on localhost: is TCP slower?
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:22:33 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081113.162233.39564490.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3aaafc130811131619w3ba48a86u6c6e2af35f149bf1@mail.gmail.com>
From: "J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:19:36 -0500
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Quite often in discussions, I see people claiming Unix sockets are
> > faster then TCP sockets on a connection that stays inside localhost.
>
> Unix domain sockets should be faster because they're not subject to
> windowing, ACKs, flow control, encapsulation, etc. etc.
And the wakeup rate is higher for TCP, and our process scheduler has
been getting gradually slower and slower over time since 2.6.22
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-14 0:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-12 23:20 Olaf van der Spek
2008-11-13 11:24 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2008-11-13 19:06 ` Olaf van der Spek
2008-11-13 23:04 ` Chris Friesen
2008-11-14 0:19 ` J.R. Mauro
2008-11-14 0:22 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-11-14 0:27 ` J.R. Mauro
2008-11-14 8:51 ` Olaf van der Spek
2008-11-14 8:54 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-11-14 9:06 ` Olaf van der Spek
2008-11-14 13:14 ` J.R. Mauro
2008-11-14 8:56 ` David Miller
2008-11-14 9:09 ` Olaf van der Spek
2008-11-14 10:37 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-11-14 13:17 ` J.R. Mauro
2008-11-14 21:07 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-11-14 22:40 ` Olaf van der Spek
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