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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 08:20:51 -0400 (EDT)

> I'm going to be playing around with bypassing the net-rx/tx with my 
> network drivers. I'm going to add threaded irqs for my network cards and 
> have the driver threads do the work to get through the tcp/ip stack.
> 
> I'll still keep the softirqs for other cards, but I want to see how fast 
> it speeds things up if I have the driver thread do it.

I think your latency is going to be dreadful.