[NFS-Ganesha-Devel] Re: NFS over UNIX domain socket
On 5/26/21 6:06 PM, Matthew DeVore wrote:
On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 10:57:46AM -0400, Matt Benjamin wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> I don't have a particular exception to someone contributing an
> AF_LOCAL personality, provided it is stream-based (clts-ord, like
I think you mean cots-ord, for connection-oriented, not connection-less?
> vsock). It's hard to see it having a great deal of utility, though.
Preliminary benchmarks saw a ~12% speed boost over localhost IP. This is useful
for us, but understood that it is highly specialized. I should clarify that my
colleagues and I (added to CC) will support our contributions for specialized
functionality going forward in case needed.
This is interesting, and may very well be worth a prototype to check,
but keep in mind that Linux will likely have very different performance
characteristics for both IP loopback and for AF_LOCAL, so it may be that
it's not faster on Linux.
Daniel