[PATCH] Receive multiple packets at a time

[Samuel Thibault]

Dave Taht, on Wed 02 Dec 2015 14:41:35 +0100, wrote:
> I guess my meta point is driven by my headaches. Getting per packet
> processing to scale up past 100Mbit is hard without offloads even on
> embedded hardware considered "high end".

In my tests I was getting 800Mbps with common laptop Gb ethernet
devices.

> >> > 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.
> 
> Given how slow other OSes are evolving, I would not hold my breath,
> and retain code paths that worked with them.

Sure!

Samuel