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<div class="plain_line"> Second concern is that many of our equipment vendors already use</div>
<div class="plain_line"> Linux. Even Cisco now in some products. Maybe we'll waste our time</div>
<div class="plain_line"> trying to roll our own solution and then find that a software update</div>
<div class="plain_line"> from a vendor next year gives us everything we needed anyway.</div>
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<div class="plain_line">This would be great, of course, and do go and bug your vendors to solve</div>
<div class="plain_line">this problem! Note, however, that just because a system is running</div>
<div class="plain_line">Linux on the control plane, it may be using a hardware-offloaded data</div>
<div class="plain_line">plane that does not have any of the bufferbloat mitigation features</div>
<div class="plain_line">(unless the vendor specifically implemented them). I'm hoping that</div>
<div class="plain_line">*eventually* these things will be ubiquitous across the industry, but</div>
<div class="plain_line">thus far this has seemed to be an "any decade now" kind of proposition :/</div>
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<div class="plain_line">-Toke</div></blockquote><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div id="xb88df2432c7845e">That's a great point.</div><div id="xb88df2432c7845e"><br /></div><div id="xb88df2432c7845e">Is the software more or less CPU independent? Would we run into any known problems with a 72-core Tilera platform? </div><div id="xb88df2432c7845e"><br /></div><div id="xb88df2432c7845e">Thanks for all your help and input by the way.</div><div id="xb88df2432c7845e"><br /></div><div id="xb88df2432c7845e">-Adam</div><div id="xb88df2432c7845e"><br /></div></span></div>
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