On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > Cache misses for small packet flow due to the fact, that the same data > > is allocated and freed and accessed on different CPUs will become an > > issue soon, not right now, since two-four core CPUs are not yet to be > > very popular and price for the cache miss is not _that_ high. > > SGI does networking too, right?
Sslab deals with those issues the right way. We have per processor queues that attempt to keep the cache hot state. A special shared queue exists between neighboring processors to facilitate exchange of objects between then. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
