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Date:      Wed, 01 Feb 2006 10:36:25 -0500
From:      Aniruddha Bohra <bohra@cs.rutgers.edu>
To:        "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Van Jacobson's network stack restructure
Message-ID:  <43E0D579.3030409@cs.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060201012011.GP97116@wantadilla.lemis.com>
References:  <20060201012011.GP97116@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

>Last week, at the Linux.conf.au in Dunedin, Van Jacobson presented
>some slides about work he has been doing rearchitecting the Linux
>network stack.  He claims to have reduced the CPU usage by 80% and
>doubled network throughput (he expects more, but it was limited by
>memory bandwidth).  The approach looks like it would work on FreeBSD
>as well.  I spoke to him and he confirmed.
>
>Comments?
>  
>
The approach there is very similar to Lazy Receiver Processing. More 
details are
available here :
http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/Systems/LRP/
http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/Systems/ScalaServer/code/rescon-lrp/README.html

Maybe people want to look at that as well.

Aniruddha




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