Re: Van Jacobson's network stack restructure

2006-11-29 Thread Bruce R. Montague
Hi, Frank. re: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-February/015365.html Who's calling? :-) Frank The original email to which you link above occurred in a discussion regarding the performance, architecture, evolution (or somesuch) of the FreeBSD network stack. The

Van Jacobson's network stack restructure

2006-11-28 Thread Frank Deignan
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-February/015365.html Who's calling? :-) Frank ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Van Jacobson's network stack restructure

2006-11-28 Thread Julian Elischer
Frank Deignan wrote: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-February/015365.html Who's calling? :-) using the everyone knows someone who is closer to the answer than they are theory, I suggest we forward it to Kirk to forward to Van or Mike.. :-) (CC'd to Kirk (I think I

Re: Van Jacobson's network stack restructure

2006-02-01 Thread Andre Oppermann
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Last week, at the Linux.conf.au in Dunedin, Van Jacobson presented some slides about work he has been doing rearchitecting the Linux network stack. He claims to have reduced the CPU usage by 80% and doubled network throughput (he expects more, but it was limited by

Re: Van Jacobson's network stack restructure

2006-02-01 Thread Aniruddha Bohra
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Last week, at the Linux.conf.au in Dunedin, Van Jacobson presented some slides about work he has been doing rearchitecting the Linux network stack. He claims to have reduced the CPU usage by 80% and doubled network throughput (he expects more, but it was limited by

Re: Van Jacobson's network stack restructure

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce R. Montague
Hi, hope this isn't too off-topic, but it's a reasonably hackery follow-up re a minor historical question instigated by Van Jacobson's Slide 6, which contains the following point: First TCP/IP stack done on Multics (1980) Presumably this means the first version of the specific TCP/IP stack with

Van Jacobson's network stack restructure

2006-01-31 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
Last week, at the Linux.conf.au in Dunedin, Van Jacobson presented some slides about work he has been doing rearchitecting the Linux network stack. He claims to have reduced the CPU usage by 80% and doubled network throughput (he expects more, but it was limited by memory bandwidth). The

Re: Van Jacobson's network stack restructure

2006-01-31 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote this message on Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:50 +1030: Last week, at the Linux.conf.au in Dunedin, Van Jacobson presented some slides about work he has been doing rearchitecting the Linux network stack. He claims to have reduced the CPU usage by 80% and doubled network