Hello, Recently I've read some nice articles: Shalev L. et al., IsoStack - Highly Efficient Network Processing on Dedicated Cores > http://www.usenix.org/event/atc10/tech/full_papers/Shalev.pdf Regnier G. et al., ETA: Experience with an Intel Xeon Processor as a Packet Processing Engine > http://www.hoti.org/archive/Hoti11_program/papers/hoti11_11_regnier_g.pdf Regnier G. et al., TCP Onloading for Data Center Servers > ftp://download.intel.com/technology/comms/perfnet/download/tcp_ieee_article.pdf Very interesting reading, I guess that many kernel people are familiar with these papers. Anyway my question is: Any considerations (or even ongoing project) for implementing similar TCP/IP stack architecture under Linux? It looks to me like very brigth idea, especially when number of cores on-chip increases every year and the trend is clear. The benchmark seems to indicate that isolating a core (or more) solely for network processing is a big win in terms of performance. I am curious what is the opinion of kernel developers on this. Thanks Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
