Re: Fire Engine??

Mike Fedyk
2003-11-26T18:50:35Z

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:35:03AM +0000, John Bradford wrote:
> 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/

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