[$] Going big with TCP packets

Like most components in the computing landscape, networking hardware hasgrown steadily faster over time. Indeed, today's high-end networkinterfaces can often move data more quickly than the systems they areattached to can handle. The networking developers have been working foryears to increase the scalability of their subsystem; one of the currentprojects is theBIG TCP patch set from Eric Dumazet and Coco Li. BIG TCP isn't foreverybody, but it has the potential to significantly improve networkingperformance in some settings.