Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:35:03 GMT | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: Fire Engine?? |
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Quote from Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>: > "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes: > > > > So his claim is that, in their mesaurements, "CPU utilization" > > was lower in their stack. Was he using 2.6.x and TSO capable > > cards on the Linux side? If not, it's not apples to apples > > against are current upcoming technology. > > Maybe they just have a better copy_to_user(). That eats most time anyways. > > I think there are definitely areas of improvements left in current TCP. > It has gotten quite fat over the last years.
On the subject of general networking performance in Linux, I thought this set of benchmarks was quite interesting:
http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/
particularly the 2.4 -> 2.6 comparisons.
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