Re: [RFC] netif_rx: receive path optimization

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:28:16 -0800
Rick Jones <rick.jones2@xxxxxx> wrote:

> >> I "never" see that because I always bind a NIC to a specific CPU :)  
> >> Just about every networking-intensive benchmark report I've seen has 
> >> done the same.
> > 
> > 
> > Just a reminder that the networking-benchmark world and
> > the real networking deployment world have a less than desirable
> > intersection (which I know you know only too well, Rick ;)).
> 
> Touche :)
> 
> > How often do people use affinity? How often do they really tune
> > the system for their workloads? 
> 
> Not as often as they should.
> 
>  > How often do they turn off things like SACK etc?
> 
> Well, I'm in an email discussion with someone who seems to bump their TCP 
> windows quite large, and disable timestamps...

And do they like the resulting data corruption.