Re: FreeBSD's new zero-copy networking

From: Matthew Jacob (mjacob@feral.com)
Date: Mon Sep 18 2000 - 10:28:30 EST


> > They've gotten 960 megabits/sec out of a gigabit Ethernet card
> > with this. Not stable yet.
>
> Didn't daveme get the same speed using Linux almost a year ago?

Also Andrew Gallatin got this speed with Trapeze && GigE cards about a year
ago as well.

It's not so much the 960Mbit (or better, actually, which you can get depending
on the card). It's how much CPU you eat up doing so. You of all people should
know that, Larry :-).

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