Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 18:13:18 +0100 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: bmah@cs.berkeley.edu Cc: ccsanady@friley216.res.iastate.edu, dyson@FreeBSD.org, gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pbufs (was: Re: ufs is too slow?) Message-ID: <22583.847905198@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Nov 1996 08:22:26 -0800" References: <199611131622.IAA03524@premise.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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> (Editorial note: Packet traces have shown that many packets, at least on > LANs, tend to be small. So it's not clear to me what effect this would have > for "typical" network traffic, though the wins for large bulk transfers have > shown to be substantial.) It's also likely to help *latency* for smaller packets quite a bit. > Somewhere in the mess I call a desk I think I have hardcopies from a talk he > gave on this stuff at a Gigabit TCP workshop a few years ago, but a cursory > search has not revealed it. See http://ee.lbl.gov/nrg-talks.html In particular, the 1992 talk "Design Changes to the Kernel Network Architecture for 4.4BSD", and the 1993 talk "Some Design Issues for High-speed Networks". Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
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