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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: AIM9 regression
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:10:54 -0500
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Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> These loopback benchmarks are often more sensitive to scheduler than networking
> changes.

Just ran a test with real NICs which show the same issues. I guess I need to
get familiar with the network stack and start hacking on it. Sigh.