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From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
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On Tue, 2006-May-30 09:46:39 +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
>network bandwidth.  It seems like hardware swings back and forth quite a 
>bit -- for a few years gigabit was way-the-heck-faster-than-CPU, now it's 
>the other way around again.  The best stack optimization work happens when 
>you have to figure out how to get the network stack to perform well in 
>near-infinite bandwidth scenarios with a CPU-bound stack,

Can't you get this by using a gigabit interface and throttling the
CPU via ACPI or cpufreq?

-- 
Peter Jeremy