And quoting:
"Harnessing a pair of protocols developed by Google, the newly released version of Linux kernel should be able to speed network traffic throughput considerably.
The technique is one of a number of new features that come with the latest update of the open source operating system kernel, Linux version 2.6.35, which Linus Torvalds released on Sunday.
...." |
The techniques:
'Receive packet steering' (from LWN.net):
http://lwn.net/Articles/362339/
'Receive flow steering' (from LWN.net):
http://lwn.net/Articles/382428/ |
