Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Feb 2001 13:41:56 +0100 | From | Werner Almesberger <> | Subject | Re: New net features for added performance |
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Chris Wedgwood wrote: > That said, it would be an extemely neat thing to do from a technical > perspective, but I don't know if you would ever get really good > performance from it.
Well, you'd have to re-design the networking code to support NUMA architectures, with a fairly fine granularity. I'm not sure you'd gain anything except possibly for the forwarding fast path.
A cheaper, and probably more useful possibility is hardware assistance for specific operations. E.g. hardware-accelerated packet classification looks interesting. I'd also like to see hardware-assistance for shaping on other media than ATM.
- Werner
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