FAST NETWORKING BASED ON THE STREAMS MECHANISM WITH FAST MODULE SCHEDULING

The STREAMS mechanism provides a flexible framework for network protoc ols and services under UNIX System V. Recently, network speed has stea dily increased while the processing time of network protocols have dec reased. As a result, the relative ratio of the STREAMS overhead to the network delay is increasing. In this paper, we quantify the STREAMS o verhead which consists of queueing and scheduling delays in SVR 4.0, T o reduce the overhead and maintain the merits of the STREAMS mechanism ,we propose a fast module scheduler which provides a fast scheduling p ath between modules, Results show that the proposed fast module schedu ler and optimized scheduling path reduce the TCP/IP latency by about 1 0% and the STREAMS overhead by about half.