Re: Early SPECWeb99 results on 2.5.33 with TSO on e1000

Andi Kleen
2002-09-06T19:21:42Z

> If you just wanted to speed things up, you could get the
> clients to specify ports instead of letting the kernel
> cycle through for a free port..:)

Better would be probably to change the kernel to keep a limited
list of free ports in a free list. The grabbing a free port would
be an O(1) operation.

I'm not entirely sure it is worth it in this case. The locks are
probably the majority of the cost.

-Andi