On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 10:03:24AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 09:45 -0700, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: > > > Sounds like we have some optimization to do, then; there's no > > fundamental unfixable reason for that delta. > > I think you have little idea of the reasons for this delta.
I have a rather good idea, actually. > Some servers handle 10 millions of TCP flows, using as little as 1KB per > connection in user space, all included. > > Do you have an idea of how much memory is needed for 10 millions TCP > sockets in the kernel ? Too much. That's potentially fixable, but not if we start with the premise that it's impossible. - Josh Triplett -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
