[zeromq-dev] RE : AF_BUS for efficient 1:M IPC comms

[Martin Sustrik]

On 23/01/13 09:44, DEBROUX Lionel wrote:

>> http://lwn.net/Articles/504722/
> Sadly, while it has some clear use cases, AF_BUS is not part of the
> mainline kernel, it remains an out-of-tree patch...
> It was added to a patched third-party 3.4.x kernel yesterday, as part
> of the LTSI (used only by a tiny minority):
> https://lwn.net/Articles/533534/ . That might speed up the inclusion
> of AF_BUS to mainline, only time will tell.

IIRC, this is part of the DBus-in-kernel saga.

What's important is that it shows that there a real need for messaging 
on kernel level.

 From my perspective, it would be nice to have a ZeroMQ-like one in the 
Linux kernel. There's an initial implementation here:

https://github.com/250bpm/linux/tree/sp-linux

However, more work would be needed to make it fully functional and 
eventually get it into mainline kernel.

Martin