Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>  > I agree with Dana's sentiments here.
>>  >
>>  > I'll add one thing, from my own experience:  in my own experience the
>>  > pain and suffering of dealing with scatter/gather is not justified on
>>  > modern systems with ordinary sized ethernet frames.  In fact, 
>> experience
>>
>> You might want to amend this with "on slow networks."  For
>> 10GbE or faster, (and maybe even 1GbE on old, slow hardware)
>> s/g is definitely worth it.
>>
>> Just this morning I doing some tests on a fairly recent 8-way AMD64
>> with uperf.  Copying rather than mapping roughly doubles CPU
>> utilization (20% -> 40%) as reported by vmstat for 8 threads sending
>> on a 10GbE interface (bandwidth is 10GbE line rate regardless).
>>   
> 
> What MTU?

1500b.

Drew
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