[143] in linux-net channel archive
New Stuff
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Fri Mar 24 09:52:09 1995
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: linux-net3@www.linux.org.uk, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-atm@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 16:01:24 +0000 (GMT)
I've uploaded a snapshot of the first beginnings of the merging of various
outstanding pieces of code, the original pre-1.3 work which has slipped way
behind because Linus did about 50 more 1.1.x releases than I had anticipated.
This first release is primarily performance tweaks especially for UDP. Last
looked up tcp/udp socket is cached, sockets cache their last used route (UDP
only for the moment), UDP output and fragmentation is done in one pass. UDP
is checksummed as its copied from user space, and a new much faster checksum
routine is being used. See the net/inet/Changes files file for more info.
Partly this is to give people using >10Mb/second networking to give me feedback
on how much the UDP checksumming improves. Its probably not yet of interest
to most people.
Device drivers have a slight mod in this release. A new field skb->protocol
needs to be set before doing netif_rx() and dev->type_trans() isnt called
back from net_bh() all the time. I've modded all the standard drivers in
the tar.
ftp.linux.org.uk:/pub/tmp/linux-net3set-0.1.tar.gz
Alan
