Van Jacobson's network stack restructure

[Aniruddha Bohra]

Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

>Last week, at the Linux.conf.au in Dunedin, Van Jacobson presented
>some slides about work he has been doing rearchitecting the Linux
>network stack.  He claims to have reduced the CPU usage by 80% and
>doubled network throughput (he expects more, but it was limited by
>memory bandwidth).  The approach looks like it would work on FreeBSD
>as well.  I spoke to him and he confirmed.
>
>Comments?
>  
>
The approach there is very similar to Lazy Receiver Processing. More 
details are
available here :
http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/Systems/LRP/
http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/Systems/ScalaServer/code/rescon-lrp/README.html

Maybe people want to look at that as well.

Aniruddha