[Info-vax] Linux 40 GbE and 100 GbE NIC Performance

[Stephen Hoffman]

There were some fairly recent discussions here about the (large) 
differences in performance between the VMS and Linux network stacks, 
and here's a more recent write-up on the difficulties with 40 GbE and 
100 GbE support into Linux:

"Improving Linux networking performance": <https://lwn.net/Articles/629155/>

These same difficulties and performance requirements will apply to VMS 
network drivers, if (when?) support for faster NICs beyond the current 
10 GbE NIC options is added to VMS.   Whether VMS can respond as 
quickly as needed, and whether there might be a need to dedicate one or 
more cores for the NIC processing?


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