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

[David Froble]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 
> and whether there might be a need to dedicate one or more 
> cores for the NIC processing?

This is an interesting statement.

It's been a while since there was "The VAX".  Different world.  This 
might have been questionable when it was one core per socket.  With 
multiple cores per socket, and with some of the on chip communications, 
for some purposes planning on having a "network processor" might be a 
very good idea.

Now, there might be a very good idea for VMS on x86.  Bring network 
speeds up to date.