On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:41 AM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
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> 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?

I think it will break some benchmark tools. The loopback device is for
testing networking protocol stacks, so we shouldn't bypass the
protocol processing. And anyone who has a performance problem of
loopback device should turn to UNIX domain socket.

For routers, how about letting users choose whether RPS mixes layer 4 info in?

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Regards，
Changli Gao(xiaosuo@gmail.com)
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