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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:57:42 -0500
From: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
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Subject: Re: UDP packets loss
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Auke Kok wrote:
> Having it bounce between cpu's would likely result in a lower 
> performance anyway: you really want it bound to a single CPU to benefit 
> from cache hits on the various involved data structs that are needed to 
> receive the data from hardware, do accounting etc.

Additionally: beware you will likely get a fair amount of packet 
reordering as well.

   -John
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