Matthew Story | 3 Jun 2012 21:02
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ASCII Notes from FreeBSD Network Summit at BSDCan

gnn asked me to forward these along to arch.  notes are (as) literal a copy
of the whiteboard session as I could work into ASCII

-- 
regards,
matt
* mbuf
  -> variable
  -> mtag
  -> offloading
  -> indirection
* l2/l3 split
* ifnet redesign
    -> queue
    -> indirection
    -> dedupe 10G
    -> variable size
* checksum
* IOX roadmap
* netmap
* latency/bw measure
* NIC/Stack load distribution

mbuf problems indirection:
    -> 2 types of mbufs
        -> very small
        -> very large
    -> too much indirection
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