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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] DPDK memcpy optimization
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 07:29:17 -0600
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 3:06 AM, Luke Gorrie <luke-vEt0keKvJLw@public.gmane.org> wrote:

Here is another thought: when is it time to start thinking of packet copy
> as a cheap unit-time operation?
>

Pretty much never short of changes to memory architecture, IMO. Frankly,
there are never enough cycles for deep packet inspection applications that
need to run at/near line-rate. Don't waste any doing something you can
avoid in the first place.

Microseconds matter. Scaling up to 100GbE, nanoseconds matter.

Jay