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List:       freebsd-current
Subject:    Re: Importing iSCSI target from NetBSD
From:       Robert Watson <rwatson () freebsd ! org>
Date:       2006-05-31 8:05:09
Message-ID: 20060531090435.A79162 () fledge ! watson ! org
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On Wed, 31 May 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-May-30 09:46:39 +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
>> network bandwidth.  It seems like hardware swings back and forth quite a
>> bit -- for a few years gigabit was way-the-heck-faster-than-CPU, now it's
>> the other way around again.  The best stack optimization work happens when
>> you have to figure out how to get the network stack to perform well in
>> near-infinite bandwidth scenarios with a CPU-bound stack,
>
> Can't you get this by using a gigabit interface and throttling the CPU via 
> ACPI or cpufreq?

I suspect there's also a motivation element to the yet bigger, yet newer 
performance numbers, which simply wouldn't be replicated by successfully 
transfering 100mbps using a quad opteron :-).

Robert N M Watson
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