Adrian Chadd's Ramblings

I've recently had the chance to run my RSS UDP test suite up on a pair of Dell R720s. They came with on-board 10G Intel NICs (ixgbe(4) i...

I started digging deeper into the RSS performance on my home test platform. Four cores and one (desktop) socket isn't all that much, but...

I think it's about time I shared some more details about the RSS stuff going into FreeBSD and how I'm testing it. For now I'm ...

The TL:DR; of this is - IP fragments are annoying. If everything was awesome and there were never IP fragments, all TCP and UDP frames wou...

Part of testing this receive side scaling work is designing a set of APIs that allow for some kind of affinity awareness. It's not easy ...

RSS is a Microsoft invention that tries to keep a given TCP or UDP flow (and I think IP, but I haven't yet tried that) on a given CPU co...