OpenBSD 5.9 network improvements
by from OpenBSD Journal on (#15RVN)
There are no doubt many eyes on OpenBSD's continuing network SMP renovation. Hrvoje Popovski writes in to tell us about some performance testing he's been doing:
My name is Hrvoje Popovski, I'm a husband, a father of 3 little kids and network engineer at University of Zagreb University Computing Centre - SRCE. Somewhere around the beginning of 2015, I got one server to play with that luckily had four em(4) (Intel I350) and two ix(4) (Intel 82599) onboard NICs. Around that time, developers started to throw out some interesting MP diffs, and I couldn't resist trying them. So I started to beg my boss and people around me to buy or lend me some PCs or servers to generate traffic with the MP diffs. I don't know how, but two Dell servers came to my lab...Read more...