Re: How to optimize routing performance

[J Sloan]

Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, J Sloan wrote:
>
> > Fun, yes, and perhaps not directly related, however
> > under high load, where the sheer numbet of interrupts
> > per second begins to overwhelm the kernel, might it
> > not be relevant?
>
> No.
>
> > Or are you saying that the bottleneck is somewhere
> > else completely,
>
> Indeed. The bottleneck is with processing the incoming network
> packets, at the interrupt level.

OK, I'll take this to kernel newbies!

:-)

Jup

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