On Wed, 31 May 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Tue, 2006-May-30 09:46:39 +0100, Robert Watson wrote: >> network bandwidth. It seems like hardware swings back and forth quite a >> bit -- for a few years gigabit was way-the-heck-faster-than-CPU, now it's >> the other way around again. The best stack optimization work happens when >> you have to figure out how to get the network stack to perform well in >> near-infinite bandwidth scenarios with a CPU-bound stack, > > Can't you get this by using a gigabit interface and throttling the CPU via > ACPI or cpufreq? I suspect there's also a motivation element to the yet bigger, yet newer performance numbers, which simply wouldn't be replicated by successfully transfering 100mbps using a quad opteron :-). Robert N M WatsonReceived on Wed May 31 2006 - 06:05:16 UTC
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