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From: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	rick.jones2@hp.com, dada1@cosmosbay.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP 2MSL on loopback
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:22:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45EDF7BD.9060402@symas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070306145403.6be2c437@freekitty>

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> TCP can not assume anything about the path that a packet may take.
> We have declared a moratorium on loopback benchmark foolishness.
> Go optimize the idle loop instead ;-)
Sure - A delay loop with fewer instructions is a worthwhile optimization 
because it has less impact on a CPU's instruction cache...
-- 
   -- Howard Chu
   Chief Architect, Symas Corp.  http://www.symas.com
   Director, Highland Sun        http://highlandsun.com/hyc
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-06 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <45EBFD13.1060106@symas.com>
2007-03-05 14:28 ` TCP 2MSL on loopback Eric Dumazet
2007-03-05 15:09   ` [PATCH] twcal_jiffie should be unsigned long, not int Eric Dumazet
2007-03-05 21:33     ` David Miller
2007-03-06  9:22   ` TCP 2MSL on loopback Howard Chu
2007-03-06 10:42     ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-06 18:39       ` Howard Chu
2007-03-06 20:07         ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-06 20:28           ` Howard Chu
2007-03-06 20:39             ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-06 21:05               ` Howard Chu
2007-03-06 21:25                 ` Rick Jones
2007-03-06 21:35                   ` David Miller
2007-03-06 22:07                     ` Howard Chu
2007-03-06 22:54                       ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-06 23:22                         ` Howard Chu [this message]
2007-03-06 18:04     ` David Miller
2007-03-06 18:46     ` Rick Jones
2007-03-06 19:25       ` Howard Chu
2007-03-06 20:41         ` Rick Jones
2007-03-07  3:36           ` Howard Chu

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