Re: [Fwd: zero-copy TCP]

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2000 - 18:16:14 EDT

  • Next message: Jes Sorensen: "Re: zero-copy TCP"

    > > I'd love to see a netware box sustain 110MB/sec (MB as in mega byte)
    > > memory to memory in two TCP streams between dual 400MHz P2 boxes.
    >
    > What the hell does a NUMA interconnect have to do with networking. Who
    > would be braindead enough to waste processing cycles passing Network
    > data over a NUMA fabric anyway. There's a lot more efficient ways to

    I have bad news for you Jeff. Thats not a NUMA fabric. Thats GigE. Thats what
    people plug larger than office sized servers into nowdays. Current NUMA fabrics
    are a good factor of 10 faster still.

    Alan

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