On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:53:05PM +0200, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > - faster ram > > Are you sure about that? Almost every benchmark I've seen, fast ram > has almost nothing to say. I would be delighted if what I've been > reading is wrong :-) >
Yes. memory speed matters a lot. DMA goes into main memory and needs to be read into the cache when the recieved packet is accessed. Having the memory close by the CPU and on fast busses helps in that regard. Big caches will do the rest. -- :wq Claudio
