Re: [Bloat] Van Jacobson's slides on timing wheels at netdevconf

2018-07-21 Thread Matthias Tafelmeier
> B) that NIC support seems > needed. I can think of a lot of things I'd like to have in a NIC > (which certainly include default timestamping on rx and multiple kinds > of X-tuple hash) - but hadn't thought about replacing queues entirely! Still fond of the notion of RX|TX sk buffers wandering

[Bloat] Van Jacobson's slides on timing wheels at netdevconf

2018-07-20 Thread Dave Taht
https://www.files.netdevconf.org/d/46def75c2ef345809bbe/files/?p=/Evolving%20from%20AFAP%20%E2%80%93%20Teaching%20NICs%20about%20time.pdf Talking about replacing queues with timing wheels. I will refrain from commenting other than noting A) I like it. We essentially have limits in the OS on