Re: Fire Engine??

John Bradford
2003-11-26T11:30:46Z

Quote from Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>:
> "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes:
> >
> > So his claim is that, in their mesaurements, "CPU utilization"
> > was lower in their stack. Was he using 2.6.x and TSO capable
> > cards on the Linux side? If not, it's not apples to apples
> > against are current upcoming technology.
>
> Maybe they just have a better copy_to_user(). That eats most time anyways.
>
> I think there are definitely areas of improvements left in current TCP.
> It has gotten quite fat over the last years.

On the subject of general networking performance in Linux, I thought
this set of benchmarks was quite interesting:

http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/

particularly the 2.4 -> 2.6 comparisons.

John.