Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Apr 1999 01:31:56 +0100 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: http://www.nfr.net/nfr/mail-archive/nfr-users/1999/Feb/0110.html |
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On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > The fun with NFR isnt the device backlog, its that BSD has a hack built > > > into it basically solely for sniffing tools to use, and Linux doesn't. > > > > That may be the key to getting to *really* high packet rates. But Linux, > > pin their test, slowed down as the packet rate increased. That's what > > made me suspect the backlog. But it's just a guess. > > Its partly the packet backlog. This is why I dumped the whole NFR > discussion nobody involved with the entire thing had done any serious > investigation into why and how to solve it.
From my reading, Alexey's turbopacket patch adds readv (and writev?) to the AF_PACKET code (or something like it).
Is there a reason why that shouldn't see the light of 2.3?
Matthew.
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