> Another thing to think about -- is ways to have CPU/network card affinity.
> You don't want to be playing L1/2 cache ping-pong on the RAM you use to
> load the packets off the card. You hopefully want to use the packets in
> the CPU that you first read them on. The way we're restructuring apache
> will let us plug in whatever extra syscall goop is needed to help this.
Er, nevermind, I'm optimizing the read-from-net case again, which is only
interesting to those of us building proxies.
Dean
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