[PATCH] Receive multiple packets at a time

[Samuel Thibault]

Dave Taht, on Wed 02 Dec 2015 14:13:27 +0100, wrote:
> More recently Tom Herbert was working on udp encapsulation methods in
> the kernel "foo over udp"
> 
> https://www.netdev01.org/docs/herbert-UDP-Encapsulation-Linux.pdf
> 
> https://lwn.net/Articles/614348/
> 
> which preserve things important at high rates like GRO/GSO.

Yes, FOU will probably get the highest rates, but it doesn't support
even basic encryption, and is harder to set up for normal people :)

> > At least for now we could commit the recvmmsg part?
> 
> Not my call. It is a linux only thing, so far as I know.

ATM yes.  I wouldn't be surprised that other OSes adopt it, though.

Samuel