On Sun, 03 Dec 2017 20:19:33 -0800 Dave Taht wrote:
> Changing the topic, adding bloat.
Adding netdev, and also adjust the topic to be a rant on that the Linux
kernel network stack is actually damn fast, and if you need something
faster then XDP can solved your needs...
> Joel Wirāmu Pauling
Jesper:
I have a tendency to deal with netdev by itself and never cross post
there, as the bufferbloat.net servers (primarily to combat spam)
mandate starttls and vger doesn't support it at all, thus leading to
raising davem blood pressure which I'd rather not do.
But moving on...
On Mon, Dec 4,
Hello,
> Scaling up to more CPUs and TCP-stream, Tariq[1] and I have showed the
> Linux kernel network stack scales to 94Gbit/s (linerate minus overhead).
> But when the drivers page-recycler fails, we hit bottlenecks in the
> page-allocator, that cause negative scaling to around 43Gbit/s.
>
> [1]
On 5 December 2017 at 06:00, Dave Taht wrote:
>>> The route table lookup also really expensive on the main cpu.
>
> To clarify the context here, I was asking specifically if the X5 mellonox card
> did routing table offlload or only switching.
>
To clarify what I know the X5 using it's smart offlo
On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 09:00:41 -0800
Dave Taht wrote:
> Jesper:
>
> I have a tendency to deal with netdev by itself and never cross post
> there, as the bufferbloat.net servers (primarily to combat spam)
> mandate starttls and vger doesn't support it at all, thus leading to
> raising davem blood pr
(Removed netdev list)
On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 09:00:41 -0800 Dave Taht wrote:
> > If you have not heard, the netdev-community have worked on something
> > called XDP (eXpress Data Path). This is a new layer in the network
> > stack, that basically operates a the same "layer"/level as DPDK.
> > Thus,
