From: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
rick.jones2@hp.com, dada1@cosmosbay.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP 2MSL on loopback
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:22:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45EDF7BD.9060402@symas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070306145403.6be2c437@freekitty>
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> TCP can not assume anything about the path that a packet may take.
> We have declared a moratorium on loopback benchmark foolishness.
> Go optimize the idle loop instead ;-)
Sure - A delay loop with fewer instructions is a worthwhile optimization
because it has less impact on a CPU's instruction cache...
--
-- Howard Chu
Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com
Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-06 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-05 11:20 TCP 2MSL on loopback Howard Chu
2007-03-05 14:28 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-05 15:09 ` [PATCH] twcal_jiffie should be unsigned long, not int Eric Dumazet
2007-03-05 21:33 ` David Miller
2007-03-06 9:22 ` TCP 2MSL on loopback Howard Chu
2007-03-06 10:42 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-06 18:39 ` Howard Chu
2007-03-06 20:07 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-06 20:28 ` Howard Chu
2007-03-06 20:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-06 21:05 ` Howard Chu
2007-03-06 21:25 ` Rick Jones
2007-03-06 21:35 ` David Miller
2007-03-06 22:07 ` Howard Chu
2007-03-06 22:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-06 23:22 ` Howard Chu [this message]
2007-03-06 18:04 ` David Miller
2007-03-06 18:46 ` Rick Jones
2007-03-06 19:25 ` Howard Chu
2007-03-06 20:41 ` Rick Jones
2007-03-07 3:36 ` Howard Chu
2007-03-05 20:59 ` David Miller
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