Packet steering/SMP

2010-08-02 Thread Brett Glass
The article at http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180022/Latest_Linux_kernel_uses_Google_made_protocols describes SMP optimizations to the Linux kernel (the article mistakenly calls them "protocols," but they're not) which steer the processing of incoming network packets to the CPU core t

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2010-08-02 Thread Jason Dixon
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2010-08-02 Thread Network World Online Resources
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