Subject: Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?
To: reiser@namesys.com (Hans Reiser)
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 19:19:55 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: smurf@osdlab.org (Nathan Dabney),
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org)
In-Reply-To: <3A9E96A6.41D725A3@namesys.com> from "Hans Reiser" at Mar 01, 2001 09:36:22 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org

> If I can't get information about BSD v. Linux 2.4 networking code, then reiserfs
> has to get ported to BSD which will be both nice and a pain to do.

I dont think raw network data helps. 2.2 and FreeBSD are basically the same
speed for raw networking in the general case. So if someone was seeing real
Linux/BSD differences Im concerned it might be a driver but also that it
might not have been networking differences but perhaps VM or disk I/O
performance. Clearly they saw something since its rather hard to mess up
that kind of measuring. I wonder if it was networking though.

The extreme answer to the 2.4 networking performance is the tux specweb
benchmarks but they dont answer for all cases clearly.

Alan

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