Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:50:28 -0800
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fire Engine??
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:35:03AM +0000, John Bradford wrote:
> Quote from Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>:
> > "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > So his claim is that, in their mesaurements, "CPU utilization"
> > > was lower in their stack.  Was he using 2.6.x and TSO capable
> > > cards on the Linux side?  If not, it's not apples to apples
> > > against are current upcoming technology.
> > 
> > Maybe they just have a better copy_to_user(). That eats most time anyways.
> > 
> > I think there are definitely areas of improvements left in current TCP.
> > It has gotten quite fat over the last years.
> 
> On the subject of general networking performance in Linux, I thought
> this set of benchmarks was quite interesting:
> 
> http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/

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