From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 31 09:28:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA28100 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 09:28:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from terra.Sarnoff.COM (terra.sarnoff.com [130.33.11.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA27894 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 09:27:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rminnich@Sarnoff.COM) Received: (from rminnich@localhost) by terra.Sarnoff.COM (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA10171; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 12:26:58 -0500 Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 12:26:57 -0500 (EST) From: "Ron G. Minnich" X-Sender: rminnich@terra To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Virtual Interface Architecture In-Reply-To: <199803311720.LAA07492@friley585.res.iastate.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > As someone else mentioned, Van Jacobson has gotten the fast path case > down to ~30 instructions for TCP processing on the receive side. If > we could get around all the complex memory management using something like > above, it should perform fairly well. This has been mentioned, starting ca. 1990. Has anyone seen the code? nowadays when I bring this up people shrug their shoulders in disbelief. Kind of a shame. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message