RE: Gigabit Linux Server Bottlenecks

From: Ted Matsumura (tedm@tedm.com)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 14:13:07 EST


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
> [mailto:owner-linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu]On Behalf Of Jes Sorensen
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 8:34 AM
> To: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu; linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: Gigabit Linux Server Bottlenecks
...
> Well in order to use it and really gain on it for transmit, you want
> scatter/gather skbuffs, something which I really want to look at
> (provided I can find the time). If you are doing the data copy anyway,
> there checksum is almost free.
>
> Jes

This should be done at least partially in hardware, IMHO.

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