[Bloat] beating the drum for BQL

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, Dave Taht wrote:

> I/we really should have beat the bql drum harder over the last 6 years. 
> It's the basic start to all the debloating.

It only helps with kernel based forwarding. A lot of devices don't even 
use this, especially as speeds go up. They use packet accelerators so the 
kernel never sees the packets after initial flow setup.

So you need to get the people developing that silicon to get with the 
program.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se