On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:10:15PM -0200, Nelson Brito wrote: > And lastly, but not least, how could you pretend to do something to get a > high-performance fashion playing with multi-core (multi-thread) if you are > still limited by Kernel's network device queue??? Are you insane??? I don't know about the rest of this mail and I might misunderstand this but Linux has had support for multiqueued NICs for some times now so as far as I can tell, a multithreaded packets generation tool makes may make sense if you want high performance on modern hardware (and it's pretty much required if you want to fully utilize your 10Gb/s link).
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