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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