netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] rps: consistent rxhash

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Message-ID: <g2m65634d661004211212t13714cccyd27936c520515684@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:12:41 -0700
From:	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, franco@...tsummer.de, xiaosuo@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] rps: consistent rxhash

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:41 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:57:01 +0200
>
>> I know many applications using TCP on loopback, they are real :)
>
> This is all true and I support your hashing patch and all of that.
>
> But if we really want TCP over loopback to go fast, there are much
> better ways to do this.
>
> Eric, do you remember that "TCP friends" rough patch I sent you last
> year that essentailly made TCP sockets over loopback behave like
> AF_UNIX ones and just queue the SKBs directly to the destination
> socket without doing any protocol work?
>

This is sounds very interesting!  Could you post a patch? :-)

> If we ever got that working, tbench performance would become
> impressive :)
>
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