> There are couple of reasons why prioritization in kernel works better than at > user level. > * The kernel mechanisms are more efficient and scalable than the user space > mechanism. Non compliant connection requests are discarded earlier reducing the > queuing time of the compliant requests, in particular less CPU is consumed and > the context switch to userspace is avoided. Im not sure this is that true. I just added a user space implementation to thttpd to favour one network range and close under load on others to keep capacity there. Its a ten minute hack, and Im still seeing the same 1400 hits per second or so I was before. Alan - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
