Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:03:56 -0600 (MDT) | From | Brian Hall <> | Subject | Re: Multithreaded TCP/IP stack |
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On 13-Jul-2000 Andi Kleen wrote: > The 2.2 stack is under two independent locks (kernel lock and bh lock). > In later 2.2 the expensive parts of the TX path (copy > and checksum) run outside the kernel lock. About half of Incoming runs > in the serialized NETBH, but you can save a lot of that by using > a NIC that that supports hardware checksumming like the Tornado.
Is this the 3Com 990 series? Is there Linux support for the hardware checksumming?
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