Re: New net features for added performance

Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Mon, 26 Feb 2001 02:57:36 +1300


On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:41:56PM +0100, Werner Almesberger wrote:

Well, you'd have to re-design the networking code to support NUMA
architectures, with a fairly fine granularity. I'm not sure you'd
gain anything except possibly for the forwarding fast path.

I'm not convince for a general purpose OS you would gain anything at
all; but an an intellectual exercise it's a fascinating idea.

I'd make a good PhD thesis.

--cw
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