On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 3:06 AM, Luke Gorrie <luke at snabb.co> wrote:
Here is another thought: when is it time to start thinking of packet copy > as a cheap unit-time operation? > Pretty much never short of changes to memory architecture, IMO. Frankly, there are never enough cycles for deep packet inspection applications that need to run at/near line-rate. Don't waste any doing something you can avoid in the first place. Microseconds matter. Scaling up to 100GbE, nanoseconds matter. Jay
