Faster vlan(4) forwarding? - blog post by mpi@
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Hrvoje Popovski wrote in to alert us that Martin Pieuchot (mpi@) has written a new blog post entitled Faster vlan(4) forwarding?, which leads in with
Two years ago we observed that vlan(4) performancessuffered from the locks added to the queueing API.At that time, the use of SRP was alsopointed out as a possible responsible for the regression. Sincedlg@ recentlyreworkedif_enqueue() to allow pseudo-drivers to bypass the use ofqueues, and their associated locks, let's dive into vlan(4) performancesagain.
Read the whole thing here: Faster vlan(4) forwarding?