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From: Werner Almesberger <Werner.Almesberger@epfl.ch>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com,
	Linux Knernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: New net features for added performance
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 13:41:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010225134156.K18271@almesberger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A9842DC.B42ECD7A@mandrakesoft.com> <3A986EDB.363639E7@coplanar.net> <20010225162357.A12123@metastasis.f00f.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010225162357.A12123@metastasis.f00f.org>; from cw@f00f.org on Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 04:23:57PM +1300

Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> That said, it would be an extemely neat thing to do from a technical
> perspective, but I don't know if you would ever get really good
> performance from it.

Well, you'd have to re-design the networking code to support NUMA
architectures, with a fairly fine granularity. I'm not sure you'd gain
anything except possibly for the forwarding fast path.

A cheaper, and probably more useful possibility is hardware assistance for
specific operations. E.g. hardware-accelerated packet classification looks
interesting. I'd also like to see hardware-assistance for shaping on other
media than ATM.

- Werner

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-25 12:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-24 23:25 New net features for added performance Jeff Garzik
2001-02-24 23:48 ` Andi Kleen
2001-02-25  0:03   ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-25  0:12     ` Andi Kleen
2000-01-01  0:19       ` Pavel Machek
2001-03-04  1:19         ` LILO error with 2.4.3-pre1 Steven J. Hill
2001-03-04  1:39           ` Keith Owens
2001-03-04  2:27             ` Tom Sightler
2001-03-04 21:32             ` Mircea Damian
2001-03-04 23:05               ` Guest section DW
2001-03-04  2:39           ` Andre Tomt
2001-03-04  3:32             ` Steven J. Hill
2001-03-04 13:35           ` Alan Cox
2001-02-25  0:13     ` New net features for added performance Jeff Garzik
2001-02-25  0:16       ` Andi Kleen
2001-02-25 11:49   ` Rusty Russell
2001-02-26 23:48   ` David S. Miller
2001-02-27  0:03     ` Andi Kleen
2001-02-27  0:08       ` David S. Miller
2001-02-27  2:53         ` Jeremy Jackson
2001-02-27 19:59       ` kuznet
2001-02-25  1:55 ` Michael Richardson
2001-02-25  2:32 ` Jeremy Jackson
2001-02-25  3:23   ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-02-25 12:41     ` Werner Almesberger [this message]
2001-02-25 13:57       ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-02-25  2:38 ` Noah Romer
2001-03-03 23:32   ` Jes Sorensen
2001-02-25 12:01 ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-25 15:11   ` Jeremy Jackson
2001-02-25 12:22 ` Werner Almesberger
2001-03-12 15:08   ` Jes Sorensen
2001-02-25 13:08 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-02-26 23:46 ` David S. Miller
2001-02-27  0:07   ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-27  0:10     ` David S. Miller
2001-03-01 21:06 ` Jes Sorensen

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