Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
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>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> (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



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?22583.847905198>