From: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: bloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Bloat] high speed networking from userspace
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:39:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d39d31dbd51cf693358b96e956b7e34d@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120313090357.2c9ac0db@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:03:57 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> User space networking works well for single application be it routing,
> bridging, network trading, or single appliance. It doesn't work on a
> multi-application environment (ie desktop). The gain is only because
> the userspace code can choose to do less, but do it faster. So if you
> want full stack, and firewall; don't bother.
Thanks for the additional comments, that's why I wrote "see netdev
discussions". In sum: if you strip, disable, swap-out functionality you can
gain speed/latency - sounds like a universally valid statement ...
HGN
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-13 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-13 0:09 Dave Taht
2012-03-13 4:15 ` Ketan Kulkarni
2012-03-13 9:26 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2012-03-13 12:28 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2012-03-13 16:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-03-13 17:39 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer [this message]
2012-03-13 19:08 ` Luigi Rizzo
2012-03-13 19:16 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-13 14:29 Luigi Rizzo
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