| To: | Werner Almesberger <Werner.Almesberger@xxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: New net features for added performance |
| From: | Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Mon, 26 Feb 2001 02:57:36 +1300 |
| Cc: | netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, Linux Knernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| In-reply-to: | <20010225134156.K18271@almesberger.net>; from Werner.Almesberger@epfl.ch on Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:41:56PM +0100 |
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On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:41:56PM +0100, Werner Almesberger wrote:
Well, you'd have to re-design the networking code to support NUMA
architectures, with a fairly fine granularity. I'm not sure you'd
gain anything except possibly for the forwarding fast path.
I'm not convince for a general purpose OS you would gain anything at
all; but an an intellectual exercise it's a fascinating idea.
I'd make a good PhD thesis.
--cw
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