> > And another important question: how much improvement can be gained from > the driver ? Folks that do parallel computation over TCP over Ethernet You can play some tricks with the driver to make eth_type_trans disappear from the profiles. This usually helps a lot because it avoids one full "fetch from cache cold memory" roundtrip per packet, which is slow on any CPU. -Andi - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
