Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:35:15 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: How to optimize routing performance |
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, J Sloan wrote: > Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, J Sloan wrote: > > > > > http://lse.sourceforge.net/scheduling/ > > > > Unrelated. Fun, but unrelated to networking... > > Fun, yes, and perhaps not directly related, however > under high load, where the sheer numbet of interrupts > per second begins to overwhelm the kernel, might it > not be relevant?
No.
> Or are you saying that the bottleneck is somewhere > else completely,
Indeed. The bottleneck is with processing the incoming network packets, at the interrupt level.
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