On Thursday 01 December 2005 15:27, Danial Thom wrote:
The issue is that RX is absolute, as you cannot
decide to delay or selectively drop since you
don't know whats coming. Better to have some
latency than dropped packets.
No, if the system can't cope with the inbound traffic, it's much
On Thursday 01 December 2005 22:19, Danial Thom wrote:
I see you haven't done much empirical testing;
the assumption that all is well because intel
has it all figured out is not a sound one.
Interrupt moderation is given but at some point
you hit a wall, and my point is that you hit a
wall a
On Thursday 01 December 2005 23:13, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:...
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: of latency occuring every once in a while would not have any
: adverse effect.
:
:A few milliseconds of latency / jitter can sometimes completely kill
: TCP throughput at gigabit speeds. A few microseconds won't matter,
:
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 16:18, Danial Thom wrote:
--- Hiten Pandya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Marko Zec wrote:
Should we be really that pessimistic about
potential MP performance,
even with two NICs only? Typically packet
flows are bi-directional,
and if we could have one
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 03:08, Hiten Pandya wrote:
Marko Zec wrote:
Should we be really that pessimistic about potential MP
performance, even with two NICs only? Typically packet flows are
bi-directional, and if we could have one CPU/core taking care of
one direction
On Monday 28 November 2005 22:13, Matthew Dillon wrote:
If we are talking about maxing out a machine in the packet
routing role, then there are two major issue sthat have to be
considered:
* Bus bandwidth. e.g. PCI, PCIX, PCIE, etc etc etc. A standard
PCI bus is limited to ~120
