Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:17:02 -0700 (PDT) | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2]: Remote softirq invocation infrastructure. | | From | David Miller <> | |
From: James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:13:47 +0100
> Why do you have to preserve packet ordering?
> TCP/IP does not preserve packet ordering across the network.
Yes, but we should preserve per-flow ordering as much as
possible within the local system for optimal performance.
Things fall apart completely, even with TCP, once you reorder more
than 2 or 3 packets deep.
> Sharing the sliding window between CPUs might be interesting!
Again, Steffen's patches take care of this issue.
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